Photo of the Week: Winter Sunset

Brillaint orange and gold streaks across the horizon are topped by dark gray clouds in the sky, A tree silhouette and snow-covered road in the foreground give way to snow-covered harvested cornfields.

One of our favorite places in winter at dusk also happens to be where we regularly see Short-eared Owls hunting over cornfields. Either way, if we see the owls or we experience an incredible sunset, we figure we’ve had a good evening. This sunset happened to be the same evening we saw five Short-Eared Owls.… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Winter Sunset

On This Day: February 26

Two white umbrella-shaped blooms hang upside down from slender green stems surrounded by variegated green rosette leaves on the dark brown mulched ground. Several mounds of melting white snow in the background.

Whoa, it’s been a year already?

I didn’t realize this week marks one year since I first published a post highlighting previous posts published each year on a specific day.

It was fun to walk down memory lane and check out the different types of posts I published on February 26 over the past 16 years.

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Photo of the Week: Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge in Winter

Brown native plants stand out against the snow-covered field, with frozen river and treeline along the shore of the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge. In the background, fluffy white clouds against a blue sky with the setting sun shining a golden glow.

With layoffs at the US Fish and Wildlife Service this month, I wanted to make sure I visited our local national refuge at the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge in the downriver Detroit suburbs.

It’s the only international wildlife refuge in North America.

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