Loggerhead Shrike - Saginaw Co 8-12

[Craig Bateman]

Hello birders,

   Two other birders and I looked about an hour after Scott's initial
observation. We searched for a good 4-5 hours total with a short trip in
between to Shiawassee in the heat of the day. We had no luck in our pursuit,
however, shrikes can roam extensively throughout their territory.

Good searching,

-- 
Craig Bateman
Novi, MI     16
(248) 891-2199
www.batemanbirding.com

On 8/12/06, Cccta at aol.com <Cccta at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  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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