Birders, I have summarized RRBO's fall banding season and posted a page with all the details on the RRBO web site. We ended up banding an average number of...
Fred McDonald, Darrin O'Brien and I did a little birding in the miserable weather today. We started at the sunflower/sorghum field at Hubbard and Southfield in...
My husband Darrin and I birded in Dearborn today. The fields at Hubbard Drive and the Southfield Fwy. service drive have a lot of raptor drama going on....
Today on a bird survey, Darrin O'Brien and I came upon a small flock (<20 birds) of Common Redpolls on the UM-Dearborn campus at the north end of Fairlane...
The Detroit River Christmas Bird count was conducted yesterday. In the Dearborn portion of the count 49 species were recorded. Unusual species included: --...
Over the last few days, we've had some new arrivals, including Eastern Phoebe, Fox Sparrow, and Golden-crowned Kinglet. Rusty Blackbirds have been seen both...
There have been a few new arrivals the last few days, including Eastern Towhee, Tree Swallow, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, and Winter Wren. -- Julie A. Craves ...
Mike O'Leary found a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher on campus on 12 April, which is a new early spring arrival date for Dearborn; I saw one on my survey this morning as...
An interesting mix of winter and spring the last few days. On Thursday, a singing Pine Siskin was in east Dearborn. Yesterday, four Purple Finches visited my...
As Dave Sing noted, there was a large influx of White-throated Sparrows overnight, with many in the area today. A female-plumaged tanager was seen by several...
A number of new migrant species arrived today, although not in any big numbers. The day began at 3:30 AM with a Whippoorwill in east Dearborn. The female...
Late additions to the spring arrival list from Saturday, April 26 were Scarlet Tanager (a new early date), a Common Yellowthroat in west Dearborn, and a Wood...
A nice day today, not huge numbers, but new arrivals and nice variety. I had 62 species. A beautiful (but silent) male Summer Tanager was in the first garden...
I found a Prothonotary Warbler and a White-eyed Vireo in a small flock of warblers at the south end of the lake this morning. Neither were vocalizing. In fact,...
It was a cold and drizzly morning, but I had 18 species of warblers on the survey today, including the first Bay-breasted Warbler of the season. Except for...
Despite good conditions overnight for migration, today was quite slow (and radar loops indicated birds pushed mostly west of this side of the state last...
Yesterday morning was fairly slow, although the first Gray-cheeked Thrush of the season was noted. Later in the day, I had a lot of migrants in my east...
Today among 18 species of warblers, I had a singing male Hooded Warbler in the area between the Rose Garden and Jensen's Meadow (they frequently show up at...
Things REALLY quieted down overnight. There were very few migrants around today, but the bright spot was an Acadian Flycatcher in the floodplain directly west...
Birds are trickling through, despite unfavorable winds, with 75 species recorded today. The Acadian Flycatcher in the floodplain south of the stone bridge was...
It was cold and windy this morning, and birds were not as evident. The most interesting bird was a singing male Ruby-crowned Kinglet, nearly a late date for...
The steady trickle continues. Another Ruby-crowned Kinglet was found today (I also had one at my house this morning), along with a singing White-throated...
There was an obvious exodus of birds on Thursday night. While flycatchers have begun increasing in numbers, many migrants -- the majority of thrushes, Magnolia...
I had hoped the last few days might bring in new migrants; instead, it drained most of them away. I recorded 70 species on Sunday, and in the late afternoon...
It was another quiet (cold, windy) morning, but some interesting birds turned up. There was a female Connecticut Warbler along the lakeside trail north of the...
Flycatchers have been the main feature the last few days. Today, I found an Olive-sided Flycatcher near the boathouse of the Fair Lane Estate. Yesterday there...
It's not quite over yet. Only a very few passage migrants have been recorded on surveys the last few days. Today, however, there was a singing Prothonotary...
Birders, I have posted a summary of the spring season in Dearborn at the RRBO web site. There is a link on the front page (http://www.rrbo.org) or directly at...
The June 2008 issue of the Ontario Field Ornithologists newsletter had an article entitled "Where have all the migrants gone?" It describes extremely low...
