Red-throated Loon Lapeer Co.

[Karl Overman]

Today Robert Epstein and I found a Red-throated loon in the Lapeer  
County portion of Holloway Reservoir.  To access the location, go  
west on Mt. Morris Road from German Road over the Flint River and  
immediately on the south side of the road there is a parking area  
designated for fishing.  Park and follow an unofficial trail to the  
edge of the reservoir.  Then walk west along the bank of the  
reservoir about 100 yards.  The Red-throated Loon was along the far  
(southern) shoreline.  Not much else on the water today--a couple  
Common Loons and three Red-breasted Mergansers in that area.   
Strangely no Bonaparte's Gulls on the reservoir which normally hosts  
hundreds of them at this time of the year.

North of Columbiaville, still in Lapeer County, on Marathon Road just  
south of Hollenbreck Road, we found an immature Northern Shrike.

Cheers,

Karl Overman
Farmington Hills, Mi.