December Dunlin! - 01 Dec 2007

I made a brief stop at the Whiting Plant this morning (Erie Rd, Monroe Co.) and found a single Dunlin picking its way through the icy shoreline near the warm water discharge of the Power Plant. Wind was coming in off the lake so there were only a hundred or so gulls about. Interestingly though were the numbers of Bonaparte's Gulls still hanging around (12-18).

J.R. Whiting Power Plant, Monroe, Michigan, US
Dec 1, 2007 8:00 AM - 8:40 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:     Quick run to check the shoreline and discharge
4 species

Dunlin (Calidris alpina)  1
Bonaparte's Gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia)  12
American Tree Sparrow (Spizelloides arborea)  2
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)  1

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A Snowy Owl was seen in Point Place, Toledo (just across the MI/OH border along the Ottawa River) the past few days. I did not have any luck finding it, but did see a pair of Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the Ottawa River. A group of birders were possibly looking for an Iceland Gull but I did not see it.

Returning northward I spotted a Red-tailed Hawk alongside I-75 and was able to digiscope it just as it took off for new haunts!

Ottawa River at I-75, Lucas, Ohio, US
Dec 1, 2007 9:00 AM - 9:14 AM
Protocol: Stationary
4 species

Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)  36
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus)  2
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)  1

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