Loggerhead Shrike - Saginaw Co 8-12

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Listers,
 
I was fortunate enough to get brief views of an adult LOGGERHEAD  SHRIKE near 
Frankenmuth this morning. This bird was initially found by Dale  Fitch on the 
9th on M-83 south of town and reported on Northbirding.com. 
 
At about 9:00 am, having spent 1/2 an hour searching, I first spotted the  
SHRIKE on a wire by the SCHARRER family's Centennial Farm on the East side  of 
M-83 1+1/2 miles north of M-54 which is Birch Run Rd - exit 136 on I-75.  There 
are 3 silos at the small farm and not much room to pull off the sometimes  
busy road. The bird seemed pretty skittish and flew off to the West after less  
than a minute of viewing. Another 1/2 hour of searching turned up the bird on  
Rathbun Road (1/4 mile north) about 1/2 a mile west of M-83. This time it 
flew  into a tree and then up to a wire before vanishing back to the South. I 
searched  for another 1/2 hour or so with no success for a total of less than two 
minutes  of SHRIKE in over an hour and a half.
 
I know that some other birders have searched the area today with no luck  
yet. The whole stretch from M-54 to Frankenmuth is mostly farm fields and woods  
with not much of what I'm accustomed to seeing as typical Loggerhead Shrike  
habitat in other States. 
 
Hope you get to see it if you try.
 
Scott Jennex
Ferndale
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