May 18, 2023
Potluck Picnic Meeting
Our annual membership potluck supper, meeting, and bird walk will be at Snug Harbor, May 18, 2023. See your newsletter for details.
We've had two M.C.N.C. meetings this season: Sept. 15, 2022 at the Roosevelt Park Community Building and Jan. 26, 2023 at the Norton Shores branch library. Our final meeting will follow this evening's supper and will include an election of officers for 2023-2024. Anyone interested in being next year's president, vice-president, secretary or treasurer should let Beth know sometime before the meeting.
May 20, 2023
Big Day Count
Diehards will meet at 5:00 a.m. at the outer gate to Lane's Landing just beyond where Maple Island Road crosses Mosquito Creek a mile north of the entrance to the Muskegon County Resource Recovery Center (MCRRC). Be careful pulling into and out of this driveway as traffic on Maple Island Road can be fast.
Shortly after five we will drive a mile to the inner gate, stopping occasionally to listen for night birds. When it's light enough to see, we will walk the mile north to the Muskegon River and back. Then we'll drive up Maple Island Road less than two miles to the MDNR headquarters for birding along the Maple River.
Lunch as usual will be brown-bag on the porch of the headquarters building. During the afternoon we'll bird the MCRRC properties and perhaps Patterson County Park (depending on what species we still need).
After an optional supper at the North Muskegon McDonald's, we'll bird the nearby Muskegon Lake Nature Preserve before driving west to Snug Harbor at Muskegon State Park and concluding our day along the north wall of the Muskegon Channel.
Our "purpose" is to have our group count as many bird species in the county as possible in one day. Anyone is welcome to join our group anytime along the way.
