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Dec 2004:30 Dec: A flock of Red-winged Blackbirds and Brown-headed Cowbirds foraging in the sunflower fields on both sides of Hubbard Drive near Ford World Headquarters today. Also reported from campus were a Sharp-shinned Hawk and Brown Creeper.
29 Dec: An adult Peregrine was found at the Ford Rouge Plant today.
26 Dec: An adult Lesser Black-backed Gull was at the Ford Rouge Plant today; second city record. Our faithful Northern Mockingbird was at the brush dump today, poking through the steaming piles of wood chips. Two Common Mergansers were in the open water beneath the waterfall at the Estate.
20 Dec: An Eastern Bluebird today at the EIC feeders is a first winter record. Forty Tundra Swans flew over west Dearborn.
15 Dec: This is the last date for the Snow Goose, again near Greenfield Village.
8 Dec: The Snow Goose is seen again, this time near Greenfield Village. We learned that it was frist seen there on 2 Dec.
7 Dec: Twenty Common Mergansers flew over campus. The 2004 results of the Wayne County Breeding Bird Atlas project have been summarized. The Atlas blocks covering Dearborn can be viewed here.
5 Dec: The Snow Goose was seen again in the Evergreen median.
4 Dec: A white-phase Snow Goose was with a group of Canada Geese foraging along the median of Evergreen Road in front of campus. There are fewer than 10 records for Dearborn. A Common Grackle is lingering at a west Dearborn feeder.