June 10, 2017
Allegan State Game Area
Leader: Ken Sapkowski
Ken led our group of six to two locations at the Allegan State Game Area. First we birded a trail along Swan Creek west of 44th Street, then the fields along 59th St. south of 118th Ave. before eating a late lunch at the Crane's Orchard Pie Pantry Restaurant on M-89 west of Fennville.
Birds of note among the 39 species were Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Acadian Flycatcher, Wood Thrush, Cedar Waxwing, Ovenbird, Worm-eating Warbler (we spent lots of time catching brief glimpses of this constantly-singing bird), Louisiana Waterthrush, Chestnut-sided and Pine Warblers, Grasshopper Sparrow, Dickcissel and Bobolink.
Remarkably on our way home John Walhout and I stopped briefly along the north end of the New Richmond bridge finding exactly four species, none of which were found earlier at the State Game Area: Prothonotary Warbler, Cliff Swallow, Chipping Sparrow and American Robin. Go figure!
Birds of note among the 39 species were Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Acadian Flycatcher, Wood Thrush, Cedar Waxwing, Ovenbird, Worm-eating Warbler (we spent lots of time catching brief glimpses of this constantly-singing bird), Louisiana Waterthrush, Chestnut-sided and Pine Warblers, Grasshopper Sparrow, Dickcissel and Bobolink.
Remarkably on our way home John Walhout and I stopped briefly along the north end of the New Richmond bridge finding exactly four species, none of which were found earlier at the State Game Area: Prothonotary Warbler, Cliff Swallow, Chipping Sparrow and American Robin. Go figure!
