Annual Dinner - November 7, 2026

By Karen Alexander Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you to all Club members who have renewed their membership for 2022! We are grateful for your continued loyalty, commitment, and support, especially while our normal club activities have been postponed or offered only virtually.  Membership renewals are due April 1, 2022. This year we have many exciting plans for the Club: We intend to get back to in-person Speaker Series at the Ojibway Nature [...]

By Jeremy Hatt The 16th annual Holiday Beach CBC took place on Tuesday, December 28th, 2021. The count area includes Holiday Beach Conservation Area, Big Creek, the lower Detroit River north to LaSalle (Lower Detroit IBA), Boblo Island, and surrounding areas. Unfortunately, Boblo Island was inaccessible this year due to construction on the island but the rest of the count circle received good coverage. 37 participants volunteered for the Count, tallying 78 species and 21,533 individual birds. During the count there were [...]

By Paul Pratt Here are the results from the Canadian portion of the 2022 Detroit River Christmas Bird Count. About one quarter of this Michigan count  is on the Canadian side of the Detroit River between the foot of Lauzon Road to the north end of Fighting Island. Highlights of the 60 species seen this year included the first ever Common Raven for the count spotted by Ian Woodfield and Carl Maiolani, 2 Belted Kingfishers, [...]

By Don Bissonnette I was able to collect Statistics from 190 Birdhouses, from 27 Bluebird trails. That is a drop from 2020 Bluebird Committee Report, which had statistics from 214 houses from 32 trails.  You can see all of the Production Charts below.  Now is a good time, to inspect all of your Birdhouses, if you havent done this already. Inspect the Pine Straw beds, & replace them if they are soiled or wet.   Below, [...]

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