UP Rare Bird Report for September 4, 2008

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UP Rare Bird Report for September 4, 2008

 

 

Several observers have noted many flocks of migrant passerines across the Upper Peninsula in the last week, with flycatchers, vireos & warblers being particularly diverse and abundant. Shorebird migration remains poor in the UP, with the Keweenaw sewage ponds reporting the best numbers and diversity. Encouraging after a summer of low numbers are reports of large flocks of Common Nighthawks migrating through the area. And a classic of fall migration, the first flocks of Canada Geese have been observed flying off Lake Superior. White-winged Crossbills remain present, but have become less visible, perhaps beginning a breeding cycle in the area. 

 

 

Highlights

 

WESTERN SANDPIPER*

LONG-TAILED JAEGER*

AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER*

Red-throated Loon

American White Pelican

Whimbrel

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Jaeger species

Black-backed Woodpecker

Connecticut Warbler

Harris’s Sparrow

 

 

 

Keweenaw County

Scott Jennex reported a CONNECTICUT WARBLER and a HARRIS’S SPARROW in Copper Harbor on September 3rd. This is tied with a date in 1997 as being the earliest HARRIS’S SPARROW in the Keweenaw, if not the whole state. Zach Gayk & Scott Hickman had a WHIMBREL flying down the Bête Gris Road on August 30th.

 

Houghton County

Scott Jennex reported a juvenile WESTERN SANDPIPER* at the Calumet Sewage Ponds on September 2nd. Efforts to relocate it the next day were unsuccessful. 

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Menominee County

5 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS were north of Bailey Park on August 30th. 

 

Marquette County

David Pavlik had a RED-THROATED LOON migrating past the Presque Isle Black Rocks on August 29th. An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was present at the Presque Isle Bogwalk from September 3-4th, and is the latest county record for the species. 

 

Delta County

A number of AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS have been reported in the last two weeks. Mike Berg reported 20+ in the last week of August in Little Bay de Noc, north of Gladstone; and Scott Jennex had on at the mouth of the No-see-um Creek on August 30th. 

 

Chippewa County

Charlie Ramsey & Mike Rotter found an AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER* at Trout Brook Pond on August 30th. The bird was near the pond on Hiawatha Forest Service Road 3179 north of H-40. This site is east of the village of Trout Lake, and west of the Fibre/Dryburg/Rudyard area. They also had a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER near this location on the 29th. 

Tim Baerwald observed a juvenal LONG-TAILED JAEGER* at Whitefish Point on August 31st. Other highlights from WPBO include a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER on August 29th; 8 RED-THROATED LOONS, WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 2 WHIMBREL, 4 BLACK TERNS & 2 unidentified JAEGER SPECIES on the 30th; 2 unidentified JAEGER SPECIES on the 31st; 1 CONNECTICUT WARBLER on September 3rd; and a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER on the 4th.  

 

 

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All birds marked with an asterisk “*” in the report are review species in the State of Michigan and should be documented with photos or a written description. Please send documentation to Adam Byrne at the Michigan Birds Records Committee at either 11771 Rachel LN, Dewitt, MI, 48820 or by email at Byrnea”AT”msu.edu

For further information about the Records Committee, please visit: http://www.michiganaudubon.org/mbrc/mbrc_home.html

 

 

To report rare birds, please email me at the TheOwlRanch at aol.com or to Birdnet at UPBirders.org if you are a subscriber. For more information on Birdnet, or UP birds, please visit www.UPBirders.org

 

Till next time,

 

~Skye Haas
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