Pt. Mouillee SGA - 10 Apr 2006

While riding the dikes last evening a small flock (7-9) of Pluvialis sp. (Black-bellied or American Golden) Plovers flew overhead heading due north.  I couldn't ID them from my direction but Ken Cole (Ypsilanti) saw them from the north and believes them to be American Golden Plovers.

Other Highlights:

(1) AMERICAN BITTERN flyover Vermet Unit

(3) Immature BALD EAGLES on island east of Pt. Moo HQ

(1) Adult BALD EAGLE on nest north side of Huron River

small flocks of BONAPARTE'S GULLS

small flocks of FORSTER'S TERNS

(3) GREAT EGRETS

RUDDY DUCKS

GREATER and LESSER SCAUP

(1) flyover WILSON'S SNIPE

(3) GREATER YELLOWLEGS (Nelson and Bloody Run Units)

(3) MARSH WRENS

The entire North American population of AMERICAN COOTS

(3) EASTERN PHOEBES

(1) HERMIT THRUSH

(1) Empid sp. flycatcher

BUFFLEHEAD

AMERICAN WIGEON

BLUE-WINGED TEAL

GADWALL

NORTHERN SHOVELERS

few gulls - a stiff wind out of the east left few birds in Cells 3-4

HORNED LARKS

TREE SWALLOWS

Did not see the Golden Eagle reported on Sunday.

Pte. Mouillee SGA (permit required Sep 1-Dec 15), Monroe, Michigan, US
Apr 10, 2006 6:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Protocol: Traveling
7.0 mile(s)
23 species

Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors)  1
Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata)  2
Gadwall (Mareca strepera)  1
American Wigeon (Mareca americana)  1
Greater Scaup (Aythya marila)  2
Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis)  2
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)  1
Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)  2
American Coot (Fulica americana)  1500     massive rafts in Humphries (Lead) Unit
Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata)  1     long-billed snipe calling "skyyype!"
Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)  3     Nelson and Bloody Run Units. Calling "Tu-Tu-Tu!"
Bonaparte's Gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia)  6
Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri)  6     first arriving flocks along mouth of Huron River. Smaller than Caspian terns, light-winged terns.
American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)  1     fly-over Vermet Unit
Great Egret (Ardea alba)  3     white herons
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)  4
Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe)  3     small black flycatcher w/ bobbing tail
Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris)  2
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)  12     first flocks returning to marsh. Walpatich and Vermet Units.
Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris)  3     singing from Vermet and Long Pond Units
Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus)  1
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)  2
Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)  2

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