May 09, 2009
Escanaba/Gladstone, MI
We met three people from the Bay de Noc Audubon Naturalist Club and birded from Portage Point south of Escanaba, went up the shore and ended north of Gladstone.
A very cold and windy day with a temperature of 39 degrees. Laurie Lata, Marlene Nelson and Joan Campbell from Chappee Rapids and Karen & Charles Lindquist and Carol Heckman from the Bay de Noc Club.
Number of species: 38
Observed:
Greater White-fronted Goose 1
Canada Goose 25
Mute Swan 8
Mallard 4
Lesser Scaup X
Bufflehead 2
Common Merganser 4
Red-breasted Merganser 2
Wild Turkey 1
Double-crested Cormorant 45
Turkey Vulture 1
Sandhill Crane 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Ring-billed Gull 1000
Herring Gull X
Caspian Tern 2
Mourning Dove 4
Northern Flicker 1
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 1
Tree Swallow 8
Barn Swallow 5
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
American Robin 2
Nashville Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 14
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 1
Chipping Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 3
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Bobolink 5
Red-winged Blackbird 35
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
Baltimore Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 1
