A nice opportunity to guide popped up recently and I was able to take someone up the Peshekee Grade (Marquette County) this week. This was great because I was able to get some field time in one of my favorite birding spots, and in the last few years, it’s  tended to be a winter birding run for me. This was a great reminder that summer birding the Peshekee is awesome! The place is a breeding bird factory. This healthy watershed has some high octane (and at least for Michigan, high elevation) boreal birding. There is extensive spruce forest as well as patches of pine forest, northern hardwoods, grassy creek marshes and Canadian Shield lakes.

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