Bird report

Highlights from driving to Livonia, Mich., and back to Chicago during the past several days. Three sandhill cranes flying over I-94 west of Ann Arbor on Friday; a great blue heron flying over snowy Benton Harbor, Mich.; at least three cooper's hawks including one on the campus of the College for Creative Studies in Detroit; at least two american kestrels; nearly two dozen mute swans including several at Wolf Lake along the Indiana-Illinois border; and several dozen red-tailed hawks all over the place.