This gallery contains images from mid-to-late spring in Michigan’s Eastern Upper Peninsula. It does not contain any warbler images from this time. Those can be found on the home page (by scrolling down) and on the Northern Warblers and More Workshop page.
Eastern Kingbird fly capture
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Male Common Merganser
Male Wood Duck
Male Ruffed Grouse Display – grey tail
Spotted Sandpiper
Wilson’s Snipe
Male Scarlet Tanager
Great Horned Owl family
Pied-billed Grebe family – fighting over a fish
Male Bobolink – in crabapple blossoms
Common Loon
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Screech Owl nest
American Bittern in northern fen
Male Indigo Bunting
Male Spruce Grouse
Eastern Kingbird
Pied-billed Grebe
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Male Common Goldeneye
Female Red Crossbill
Blue-headed Vireo
Ruddy Turnstone
Kingbird
Common Merganser Pair
Barred owl nest
Pied-billed Grebe with Rock Bass
Male Golden-crowned Kinglet
Piping plover
Male Wood Ducks ritualized chase display
Ruddy Turnstone
Spotted Sandpiper
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Ruffed Grouse Nest
Least Sandpipers
Male Scarlet Tanager
Upland Sandpiper
Pied-billed grebe
Male Ruffed Grouse Display – red tail
Male Red-breasted Merganser head-throw display
Spotted Sandpiper
Red Crossbill pair
Spotted Sandpiper
Pied-billed Grebe family – juvenile begging
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Male Bufflehead rushing courtship display
Killdeer
Pied-billed grebe
Fox Sparrow
Merlin and midges
American Bittern
Pied-billed Grebe with Perch
Male Ruffed Grouse drumming
Male Common Merganser with bullhead
Winter Wren
Male Long-tailed Duck
Brown Creeper
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Sharp-shinned hawk
Wood Thrush
Pied-billed Grebe fight
Male Goldeneye kick display
Male Indigo Bunting
Hermit Thrush
Male Red-breasted Merganser removing claw from crayfish
Killdeer
Sharp-shinned hawk
American Bittern over northern fen
Male Hooded Merganser with Perch
Male Scarlet Tanager
Spotted Sandpiper
Blue-headed Vireo
American Bittern over northern fen
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks
Killdeer
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Male Bobolink
Male Common Goldeneye
American Bittern over northern fen
Male Red-winged Blackbird
Piping Plover
Male Wood Duck fight
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Eastern Kingbird
Pied-billed Grebes – juvenile begging
American Bittern
Pied-billed Grebe with Sunfish
Lesser Yellowlegs
Common Merganser Pair
Male Red Crossbill
Wilson’s Snipe
Pied-billed Grebe submerges
Eastern Kingbird
Spotted Sandpiper
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Male Red-breasted Merganser
Pied-billed Grebe
Barred Owl
Male Indigo Bunting
Male Bufflehead
Male Golden-crowned Kinglet
Pied-billed Grebes pre-fight
Killdeer
Sanderling on Lake Superior beach
Ruffed Grouse drumming
Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak in apple blossoms
Wilson’s Snipe
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Winter Wren
Common Loon Pair
Sharp-shinned hawk
Male Scarlet tanager
Pied-billed Grebe family – juvenile with rock bass
Eastern Kingbird
Spotted Sandpiper
Philadelphia Vireo
Black-crowned Night Heron
LeConte’s Sparrow
Black Tern
Whippoorwill nest
LeConte’s Sparrow
Virginia Rail
Barred Owl nest
Hooded Merganser Family
Warbling Vireo
Lesser Yellowlegs
Red-eyed Vireo
Canada Goose nest and midges
Male Dickcissel
Male Common Merganser
Swamp Sparrow
Bald Eagle
Kingbird