Muskegon County Nature Club
January 2025
Homepage: http://muskegoncountynatureclub.blogspot.com
January 18 Field Trip
Meet at 9:00 a.m. inside the Maple Island Road entrance to the Muskegon County Resource Recovery Center (formerly "the Wastewater"). We will drive from there to various locations* on the property looking for whatever birds are present. Having a walkie-talkie tuned to Channel 11, Subchannel 00 will be helpful for car-to-car communication, but is not necesssary. We will often step out of the cars for a better views of birds, so be sure to dress for the weather.
This trip will end around noon. We hope to see you there.
At the time of this writing the weather forecast looks fine. However, as with all our field trips, if there is a cancellation, it will be posted on our homepage (above) as soon as possible.
* Driving only on roadways that have been plowed and leaving room for other vehicles to pass whenever we park to step outside, we will scan the rapid filtration lagoons, check the headquarters’ bird feeders, drive up to the aeration lagoons, check one or both of the big lagoons, scan the landfill, and drive to the granary on Swanson north of White. Besides the usual suspects, winter bird possibilities at the Wastewater include Snowy and Short-eared Owls, Golden Eagle, Northern Shrike, Peregrine Falcon, Merlin, Common Raven, Lapland Longspur, Common Redpoll, Snow Bunting, plus unusual waterfowl and gulls.
January 21 Program
CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER !
No January Meeting
We have not scheduled a midwinter club meeting for this month because nothing seems to have changed in terms of club business since our last meeting on September 17, 2024. If you feel that there is a need for a winter meeting, please let Beth know and we'll schedule one in February.
