This years' City of Muskegon Christmas Bird Count (CBC) will be held on Saturday, December 17, 2022.
As in the past, three groups will begin at 8:00 a.m., count birds at various locations that morning, and meet for lunch at the Cherokee restaurant (1971 W. Sherman Blvd.) from roughly 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Anyone wishing to participate may do so. Just join one of the groups mentioned below. Contact Ric Pedler for more information. Be sure to dress for the weather.
Bonnie Kot will lead the south group which meets in the old Denny's restaurant parking at the southeast corner of Seaway Drive and Green Street (east of Mona Lake Park). The group will drive to various locations to walk and count birds for awhile.
Ken Sherburn will lead the north group. That count won't include as much walking as in previous years, but will still include walking the Snug Harbor and Muskegon Channel areas of Muskegon State Park and the Muskegon Lake Nature Preserve.
Although the central group will be censusing several areas within the city of Muskegon, it will not always be participating as one group and will not be starting at one location that morning. So if you want to participate, please meet at 8:00 with either the south or the north group.
After the all-group lunch at the Cherokee, some people may continue to count birds, but most will call it a day.
The Muskegon Wastewater CBC will be on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022 (not the 21st as first posted). For your area of coverage within the 15-mile-diameter-circle, meet leader Brian Johnson in the headquarters parking lot of the Muskegon Resource Recovery Center (formerly Muskegon County Wastewater Management System), 698 N. Maple Island Road, between 8:00 and 8:15 a.m. on the 14th.
This count is done almost entirely by car. Participants may meet for lunch around noon at Granny's Griddle Restaurant (northeast corner of Apple Ave. and Wolf Lake Road), but check with Brian that morning to be sure.
