• 07 Aug 2009 /  Uncategorized

    I visited Point Mouillee from about 6-11 am Thursday, August 6 and recorded thefollowing list of 77 species.  It was a full moon  morning and the most memorable sighting of the visit was watching a Comon Loon fly across the disk of the moon just before dawn.  The other outstanding species included An American Avocet in Cell 3.  There was also a Red Knot, 3 Ruddy Turnstones and 6 Sanderlings in Cell 3 along with may other shorebirds, terns and a few Lesser Scaup.

    Just across from Cell 3 there were 8 White Pelicans preening near  the rookery island in the Lead Unit. I did not see them flying during my visit. There are at least three and perhaps 5 Snowy Egrets which do fly betwen the Lead and Vermet Units.
    Canada Goose     175
    Mute Swan     2
    Wood Duck     50
    American Wigeon     2
    American Black Duck     1
    Mallard     125
    Blue-winged Teal     15
    Northern Shoveler     2
    Green-winged Teal     4
    Redhead     4
    Ring-necked Duck     1
    Lesser Scaup     4
    Ring-necked Pheasant     1
    Common Loon     1
    Pied-billed Grebe     80
    American White Pelican     7
    Double-crested Cormorant     25
    Great Blue Heron     150
    Great Egret     230
    Snowy Egret     4
    Green Heron     1
    Black-crowned Night-Heron     20
    Osprey     2
    Bald Eagle     1
    Northern Harrier     1
    Common Moorhen     4
    American Coot     120
    Semipalmated Plover     20
    Killdeer     75
    American Avocet     1
    Spotted Sandpiper     6
    Solitary Sandpiper     3
    Greater Yellowlegs     14
    Lesser Yellowlegs     200
    Marbled Godwit     1
    Ruddy Turnstone     3
    Red Knot     1
    Sanderling     6
    Semipalmated Sandpiper     200
    Least Sandpiper     20
    Pectoral Sandpiper     4
    Stilt Sandpiper     3
    Short-billed Dowitcher     40
    Bonaparte’s Gull     2
    Ring-billed Gull     25
    Herring Gull     10
    Caspian Tern     50
    Common Tern     5
    Forster’s Tern     7
    Mourning Dove     12
    Eastern Screech-Owl     1
    Chimney Swift     4
    Northern Flicker     1
    Eastern Kingbird     6
    Warbling Vireo     2
    Purple Martin     10
    Tree Swallow     200
    Northern Rough-winged Swallow     3
    Bank Swallow     30
    Barn Swallow     125
    swallow sp.     200
    House Wren     1
    Marsh Wren     3
    American Robin     6
    Gray Catbird     2
    European Starling     150
    Cedar Waxwing     4
    Yellow Warbler     3
    Savannah Sparrow     3
    Song Sparrow     4
    Northern Cardinal     5
    Indigo Bunting     3
    Red-winged Blackbird     X
    Common Grackle     X
    Brown-headed Cowbird     50
    House Finch     2
    American Goldfinch     15