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"Treat the Earth well.

It was not given to you by your parents.

It was loaned to you by

your children."  

 - Kenyan Proverb

 

 

 

Preserving land. Protecting water. Sustaining life.


What to look for at the Pinconning Nature Preserve

 

Birds

Cedar Waxwing                         

Barn Swallow                                                     

Green Heron

Yellow Warbler                                                     

Song Sparrow                                                     

Eastern Kingbird

Bobolink                                                     

Eastern Phoebe                                                     

Northern Flicker                                

Cardinal                                                     

Chipping Sparrows

Redwing Blackbird

Catbird

Yellow-throated Vireo

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Ring-necked Pheasant

Blue Jay

Common Grackle

Black-capped Chickadee

Canadian Geese

Killdeer

Brown Thrasher

Snipe

Common Merganser

Common Egret

Eastern Bluebird

Hooded Merganser

Mallard

Goldeneye

Red Head

American Bittern*

Tern (various species)*

Northern Harrier*

Marsh Wren*

Least Bittern*

Yellow-headed Blackbird*

Black-crowned Night Heron* 

 

Plants

Marsh Blazing Star

Prairie Cord Grass

Buxbaum’s Sedge

Canada Blue Joint

Canada Anemone

Softstem Bulrush

Southern Blue Flag Iris

White Avens

Swamp Milkweed

Silverweed

Phragmites (invasive species)

 

Other

Eastern Fox Snake*

Monarch Butterfly

Blanding’s Turtle*

Leopard Frog

Bullfrogs

Treefrogs

Persius Duskywing* (butterfly)

 

* Michigan Species of Concern or Threatened Michigan Species

P.O. Box 222 311 Fifth Street Bay City, MI 48707-0222 989.891.9986