Today was quite a snoozer, with only 14 birds banded. However, three were new species for the year: our first Dark-eyed Junco, and two species that have been...
This was our first frosty-net morning, delaying total opening for over an hour. The highlight of the day was a young male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, only the...
For our Detroit Audubon field trip today, we had another lovely, crisp morning. For the banding demo, we produced some nice species, including Ovenbird, Swamp...
The last 10 days we have only banded about 11 hours. Still, we can see that White-crowned Sparrows have been peaking the last few days, Hermit Thrushes are...
The usual suspects have still been around, with Nashville Warblers and Common Yellowthroats still being seen as of a few days ago. Yesterday's Palm Warbler,...
Activity has occurred in pockets the last few days, with the banding area being more often "out of pocket". Yesterday I squeaked up a Marsh Wren next to one of...
Our 13th fall banding season wrapped up on 1 November. An average of 16.6 nets were open an average of 4.6 hours per day. These figures are not too far from...
I received the last of the data for 2004 a week or so ago, and have updated the Wayne Co. web site: http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/rouge_river/bba.html You can...
What will likely be the bird of the year for Dearborn, and perhaps southeast Michigan, was found on January 1 on the Dearborn portion of the Detroit River...
First, as of noon today, I've received no reports of the Gyrfalcon. I looked myself in a quick drive-by before work, but it was not sitting out where I could...
Birders, As has been reported on several lists, there were no sightings of the Gyrfalcon over the weekend, despite many people looking. The last report I can...
Our first Common Grackle of the year flew over yesterday. The overwintering flock of blackbirds (mostly Red-winged) at the sunflower fields did contain some...
Well, not much happening on the migrant front. Aside from increased numbers of blackbirds and robins, the only migrants we have had arriving were a Turkey...
On my quick walk today I found two Fox Sparrows in with over 50 juncos and a bunch of Song Sparrows. Most of the juncos were male-plumaged, and many were...
A few more new arrivals were found yesterday afternoon: Chipping Sparrow (new early arrival date), Field Sparrows, a Rusty Blackbird, a total of three Hooded...
Tree Swallows and Yellow-rumped Warblers have returned to Dearborn. I had my first Hermit Thrush yesterday, and two were singing today, along with a couple of...
Strong and persistant east and northeast winds have done nothing to enhance the numbers of spring arrivals this week. On Sunday, the first Barn Swallows and...
April 15 is tax day, and the first day of the spring banding season for RRBO. As expected, things were pretty dull, but I did have a couple of interesting...
Today RRBO banded its 137th species: a Northern Mockingbird. Even more interesting, I am 99% sure it is not the resident bird which hangs out at the other end...
Migrants are still trickling in, but essentially in ones and twos. House Wrens arrived today, along with Green Heron, and I banded Yellow Warbler as well. A...
Here's an update from the no-data-is-still-data department: Not much going on here! With the exception of a single Common Yellowthroat yesterday, we've had no...
A version of this with links is available on the RRBO web site. This, from the Needle in a Haystack Department. On 22 April, I captured a banded Ruby-crowned...
Another dispatch from the High Quality, Low Quantity Dept. Although I'm still suffering from what my co-worker Rick Simek termed "Empty Nets Syndrome", I did...
The last few days have seen an influx of migrants, with these new arrivals: Least Flycatcher Orange-crowned Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Blue-winged Warbler ...
Very nice uptick in diversity today, with 16 species of warblers, including our first Magnolias, Blackburnians, Bay-breasted, American Redstart, Ovenbird, and...
If you are interested in participating in, already volunteering for, or are just plain curious about the Michigan Breeding Bird Atlas project, join us on...
Things were pretty hot early this morning here, especially by the lake. New species continue to arrive: today we had Black-billed Cuckoo, Acadian Flycatcher,...
I located a second-year male Blue Grosbeak this morning at about 8 AM, on the campus of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Wayne Co. It was feeding with a...
Yesterday Greg Norwood had a good morning here on campus for the North American Migration Count. He reported 19 species of warblers. Today we had 18 species,...
Things were about as moderately-paced as yesterday, but the composition of the birds changed a bit. Today the first Canada and Wilson's Warblers were banded,...
