On the short list of birds that I expected to add to my yard list one day, Eurasian Collared Dove was not on my radar. Nonetheless, I noticed the rather large pale dove fly across my yard and land on my neighbor's shed. By the time I sent a group text to a few Mason County birders the bird had moved on.
According to the searchable database on the Michigan Bird Records Committee website, the species had only been recorded in the state 31 times through November 2020. That would make it my rarest yardbird ever, besting the Rufous Hummingbird that visited my Southgate house in 2011. Rufous Hummingbirds have been recorded at least 50 times in the state.
Moments later, this young Bald Eagle stared me down as it flew over my deck. But it didn't intimidate me....
....well maybe just a little.
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