Photo of the Week: Northville River Park

Looking north from one of the pedestrian bridges, the Rouge River tumbles over rocks. Along the shoreline, is a Mallard foraging. Bright red and gold maple and oak trees as well as flowering native plants line the shoreline. Bright blue skies and white fluffy clouds in the background.

A beautiful fall day with blue skies, bright sunshine, cool temperatures, and the beginning of fall color change in maples and oaks made for a wonderful walk along the trails of Northville River Park.

Opened only a few months ago in June 2026, the downtown park replaces a longtime privately owned horse race course.

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What I Found Interesting: September 30, 2026

Green-colored copper sculpture of girl laying down on her stomach on the ground reading a book, brown mulch surround the sculpture, green-leafed white-flowered shrubs in the background.

Golf courses providing wildlife habitat, bird photographer of the year, and a red silk dress that took 14 years to complete are a few of the interesting stories I’ve enjoyed in the past month.

I hope you enjoy them, too!

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Photo of the Week: Juvenile Rose-breasted Grosbeak

A stocky brown bird with white wing bars, white stripe over eye, chunky bill, brown streaky white breast with faint rose triangular patch perches on a wooden platform feeder with thick silver supports.

With fall bird migration in our area, I expected to see a number of migrating warblers in our area as they fly south.

What a pleasant surprise to find a juvenile Rose-breasted Grosbeak stop by the platform feeder to feed on some sunflower seeds. (Note the bits of seeds around its bill.)

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