Pt. Mouillee SGA - 09 May 2004

09 May 2004 Pt. Mouillee SGA, Monroe

I rode the causeways this morning (Sunday, May 9) and saw a male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD at the junction of Lead, Vermet and Bloody Run units. I also saw and photographed a WILSON's PHALAROPE in Cell 2. Others: 

(6) Spotted Sandpipers 
(9) Sora - 2 seen and 7 heard 
(2) Virginia Rails 
(6) Swamp Sparrows 
(5) Marsh Wrens 
(2300) Dunlin 
(2) Greater Yellowlegs 
(7) Lesser Yellowlegs 
(21) Least Sandpipers 
Warbling Vireo 
Rose-breasted Grosbeaks 
White-crowned Sparrows 
Common Yellowthroats 
Coots 
Pied-billed Grebes 
(9) Forsters Terns 
(21) Caspian Terns 
(2) Common Terns 
Blue-winged Teal 
Green-winged Teal 
Pintail 
Shovelers 
Ruddy Ducks 
Ringnecks 
Redheads 

I could not find the BLACK-NECKED STILTS

Pte. Mouillee SGA (permit required Sep 1-Dec 15), Monroe, Michigan, US
May 9, 2004 7:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
9.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:     I could not relocate the Black-necked Stilts that were reported earlier.
27 species

Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors)  2
Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata)  2
Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)  1
Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca)  2
Redhead (Aythya americana)  2
Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris)  2
Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)  2
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)  2
Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola)  2
Sora (Porzana carolina)  9     2 seen and 7 heard in Long Pond, Vermet, Lead Units
American Coot (Fulica americana)  2
Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)  1     pale phalarope w/ large body and small head in Cell 2. Foraging with frenetic behavior in shallow water. Not a Red-necked Phalarope by pale-gray head, peach-tinge to neck
Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)  6
Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)  7
Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)  2
Dunlin (Calidris alpina)  230     Large flocks all over Cell 2, Vermet, and along Lake Erie shoreline
Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)  21
Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia)  21
Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri)  9
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)  2
Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)  1
Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris)  5
White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)  2
Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana)  6
Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus)  1     adult male blackbird with bright yellow head and throat, white wing patches on dike at junction of Lead, Vermet, and Long Pond Units.
Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)  2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus)  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S41715520

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