Wednesday, the 17th there was a Beryllines Humming reported in Grand Marais, Michigan. It is the first one in Michigan and first one North of Texas! It took some convincing but, I was able to take thursday off of school to look for it with my grandpa and Brother. After 5 hours of waiting the bird never showed up. Did it die over night? or did it head south? Later in the night I received an email saying that the Hummer spent the day at a different feeder less then 1 Mile from where we were! I got a text friday morning saying that it was at the feeder that it was seen Thursday. I got out of school a couple hours early to go see it. My Mom and my 3 little brothers came with me. When we got there we saw this on the feeder. Saturday I went again with Scot Stewart. We were able to see it too.
Berylline Hummingbird
After watching it for a couple of hours we headed over to the pier and beach. I noticed a tern flying. My first thought was common tern. Then, I remembered it was September. I started to take pictures. It turned out to be an Arctic Tern. This is the rarest bird I've ever found!! It's the 24th Record for Michigan! It is being submitted to the U of M to be added to the record books. It just makes me want to keep studying and birding even more!
