You're invited to meet with those of us breakfasting at the McDonald's restaurant at Apple Ave. & US-31 before the field trip. We will leave the restaurant at 8:00.
The trip itself will begin around 8:15 a.m. just inside the Maple Island Road entrance to the Muskegon County Resource Recovery Center (formerly the Wastewater). We will bird the entrance area until 8:30 before heading to the headquarters, the dikes, and the fields of this 16-square-mile property.
We will drive to various areas and then get out to bird. Besides your binoculars, a spotting scope and a walkie-talkie tuned to Channel 11, Subchannel 0 will be useful, but neither is necessary.
We hope to find many migrating shorebirds and yet-to-migrate breeding grassland and woodland birds this Saturday morning. The trip will end around noon. The public is welcome.
