Prothonotary + Piping Plover at Tawas Pt. SP

[Bruce M. Bowman]

Darlene Friedman, Reg Baker, and I had a couple of particularly good 
birds at Tawas Point State Park on Sunday.  One was a PROTHONOTARY 
WARBLER.  Darlene heard it first and then found it in deep brush.  The 
bird sang repeatedly over a ten- or fifteen-minute period as we searched 
for it.  All three of us eventually managed decent looks at it.  This 
species is rare as far north as Tawas Point.

The other bird was a probable PIPING PLOVER--probable only because 
there's the remotest chance that it was a Snowy Plover, as the bird was 
very light in color.  This bird was with mostly Dunlin on the most 
distant sand bar (southwest of the tip).

Both birds were seen at about 11:00 to 11:30 in the morning.

We did have some other good birds.  I'll post a trip report later today.

Bruce
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Bruce M. Bowman                     
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA             
Washtenaw Co., southeast Michigan   
bbowman99 at comcast.net               
http://www.umich.edu/~bbowman/birds