Kentucky Warbler, White-eyed Viireo - Jackson County - PLU

[Don Henise]

Wednesday morning at the Portage Lake Unit in Waterloo Township in Jackson County, Joyce Peterson discovered a singing White-eyed Vireo. He was near the lake edge in the brush to the left of the picnic pavilion that overlooks the lake to the west of the beach area. After Robyn & I checked out the vireo we were walking back to our car in the boat launch parking lot when we heard a Kentucky Warbler singing in the same woodlot. This is the woodlot to the right as your walk down to the boat launch ramps. He was circling around this small woodlot between the boat launch and the picnic pavilion mentioned above, singing pretty much continually. At one point he came fairly close to the edge near the boat launch road and we both got brief, but good views of the bird. This was a new Jackson County bird for us.

Other than that we had pretty much the same birds that Joyce had reported in the area on Tuesday.

Don Henise
 
Librarian
New Tribes Bible Institute
Jackson, MI
don_henise at ntm.org