NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD STILL HERE!!!!

Finally some sun so one does not waste it. Chris and I went cleaning out the bird boxes we put up last year. The two at Perch Creek proved to have had tree swallows in both boxes,marthaville Management area both boxes had House Wrens, the last 3 boxes are on private property and finally we found one of the boxes had Bluebirds nesting in it the other two had Tree Swallows The owner of the property was excited as he had watched them most of the spring. While on his property which is 50 acres we flushed out a Pileated Woodpecker. The day was still early so we thought we would see if the Northern Mockingbird was still on Michigan and were delighted when we found it sitting up on the hydro line. .

We continued along Michigan out towards Camalchie Sideroad and when we had just passed O'Brien we found 15 Ring Necked Pheasants at the side of the road.

Our route back home was along Churchill Line to Blackwell Side road the Snowy Owl was sitting in its usual spot up on the hydro pole.

On a side note a few days ago we went down to Corunna to see the eagles that have been seen and had the priveledge to see 18 perched in the trees. We sat and watched them soar and try to snatch one of the Mergansers the eagles would hover over top of the duck as it was submerged trying to stay under until the eagle would fly off.