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Tawas Michigan - Birding at the Point
Hello all,
This is my first blog entry here at The Birding Hotspot. You can call me The Novice. I’m a beginning birder without a lot of experience, and so I make a lot of newbie mistakes. This blog will be a place where I share some of my experiences – exciting, embarrassing, or otherwise – and hopefully will be able to get advice from more experienced birders out there in cyberspace, as well as sharing humor at my own greenness that other beginning birders will relate to. 
A couple months ago in May, I was lucky enough to attend the Tawas Point Birding Festival in East Tawas, Michigan. As you may or may not know, Tawas is prime territory for the Kirtland’s Warbler, one of the most endangered songbirds in North America. Sadly, I didn’t get to see any Kirtlands myself, but I got to attend several great seminars from some of the leading bird experts in Michigan, go on a guided fieldtrip through Tawas’ marshlands, and do some exploring of my own up at Tawas Point State Park.
Saturday morning was when I took the field trip to the marsh, where we got to see herons, a bobolink, and nesting osprey in flight! That afternoon, while birding up at the point, I got to take a couple pictures of what I think were Eastern Kingbirds. You can actually see the pictures I took that day (and some less impressive shots of seagulls and mallard ducks and such 
) in the photo galleries section of the site.
Experts, let me know if my ID on those Kingbirds was correct!
