SE Mich Weekend Highlights

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Listers,
 
A long Christmas weekend allowed for squeezing some good birds in around  the 
family commitments. These are the highlights of rare & lingering  birds:
 
Macomb Co
 
all three SCOTERS in the huge flock of waterfowl in close at MetroBeach  
Metropark on Saturday the 23rd
3 female type BLACK SCOTERS
2 SURF SCOTERS - one adult male
one adult male WHITE-WINGED SCOTER
 
St Clair Co
 
Singles of LONG-EARED OWL & NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL on Saturday  the 23rd in 
the conifer grove at Palms Elementary School on Palms Road north of  M-29 - this 
is the Saw-whet from the Anchor Bay CBC
 
Wayne Co
 
Belle Isle 12-25
first winter ICELAND GULL at west end of island with large group of  
Ring-bills and Herring Gulls
NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL in regular roost north of Nashua Creek
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER off the north side at the west end of the island
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker near the red bridge over Nashua Creek
5 Great Blue Herons & 2 Black-crowned Night Herons
one first winter White-crowned Sparrow at the Nature Center Feeders in the  
House Sparrow horde
 
Oakland Co
 
Refound the Common Yellowthroat today at Robert H Long park which was  
reported yesterday
 
Also today had both Song and Swamp Sparrows lingering along with a Great  
Blue Heron at the American Center Marsh in Southfield
 
Not quite the western UP but some nice birds
 
Scott Jennex
Ferndale
 
 
 
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