This site, encompassing Harrington Beach State Park, contains a variety of habitats including open Lake Michigan waters, sand beach, cool-season grasslands, upland deciduous forest, lowland forest of white cedar and black ash, and shrublands.

Thousands of birds utilize this site as migratory stopover and wintering habitat, including large rafts of diving ducks, loons, and grebes in the open waters, shorebirds on the sandy beaches, a wide variety of landbirds in the woodlands and shrubby areas, and raptors along the lakeshore.  Short-eared owls are found occasionally in the grasslands during the winter.

Photo credit: Ryan Brady