Eider at Channel and Shrike at Wastewater

At 1:00 p.m. to Mich-listers:

[ Common Eider ] seen just now by the lighthouse on the south inner breakwater.  An hour earlier it had been seen at the east end of the breakwater, so it is moving around. 

Dan Fox
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Meanwhile on the gray and gloomy Wastewater properties this morning, the Northern Shrike was back, perched atop a tree south of the elbow on Laketon 1/4 mile west of Swanson.  The Penny's from Grand Rapids Audubon reported 13 Bald Eagles by the Landfill.  I saw 8 of those plus two Red-tailed Hawks, an accipiter (Cooper's Hawk probably) and four light-morph Rough-legged Hawks.

Forty acrobatic American Tree Sparrows provided entertainment south of the model airplane field.  Foraging mostly on the snow, they would occasionally fly up to the tops of the grasses for seeds, sometimes riding the stems back down to the snow.

- Ric