Bohemian Waxwings, Gratiot & Isabella Cos.

[Karl Overman]

Today, February 8th, Robert Epstein and I did some birding in the  
central lower peninsula area. In the vicinity of the Maple River  
State Game Area in southern Gratiot County, we found 3 Bohemian  
Waxwings on Ranger Road a quarter mile west of Crapo Road.  Initially  
they were in a fairly distant bush with about 8 E. Bluebirds but then  
they flew to a line of shrubs close to Ranger Road.  We saw them  
around 10 am. When we returned to that area at 4:30 p.m. we saw no  
waxwings and no bluebirds.  Other birds in the area were singles of  
N. Harrier and Rough-legged Hawk with a Northern Shrike about a mile  
to the SW on Taft Road.

We spent considerable time looking for the previously seen Bohemian  
Waxwings on the Central Michigan campus in Mount Pleasant in Isabella  
County but we came up empty.  We managed to find a flock of around 30  
Bohemian Waxwings SW on Mount Pleasant but still in Isabella County  
on Millbrook Road a half mile west of Whiteville Road.

Cheers,

Karl Overman
Farmington HIlls, Mi