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Photo of the Week: Mississagi Freighter on the Detroit River

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Mississagi freighter travels along the Detroit River

While I do a fair amount of bird watching at Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan, one of other hobbies I enjoy while I’m on the island is watching the freighters on the Detroit River.

It’s fun to see the Algowood in the fog or Dorothy Ann-Pathfinder traveling the waters on their way upbound to the Soo Locks or downbound to Windsor or cities further south.

This weekend, I saw the Mississagi freighter on one of its last trips for the season, downbound on the Detroit River shipping channel to Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Mississagi Freighter on the Detroit River

Slow Down Your Day with BirdNote Radio

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A couple hundred Sandhill Cranes take flight over a harvested cornfield

Since I’m on holiday vacation until January 2, 2020, I’m enjoying a break from writing about the web and technology.

Imagine the sound of Sandhill Cranes, a group of dozens of the large gray birds, flying overhead in the sky during their migration.

I’ve heard that trilling sound hundreds of times when I’m birding on the back dirt roads of Michigan.

Long before I can spot the birds.

That sound, and many like it, is why I take two minutes during my day to slow down and listen to a BirdNote radio show. Continue reading Slow Down Your Day with BirdNote Radio

Photo of the Week: Holiday Hike at Kensington Metropark

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the sun fades in the sky over the tree tops, casting orange and yellow light across the gray sky.
Sunset at Kensington Metropark

One of our family holiday traditions is hiking the trails at Kensington Metropark Nature Center, near Milford in southeast Michigan.

In the past, when our son was younger and in grade school, we would hike on New Year’s Day.

Not a day when many people are out at the metroparks; we often had the trails to ourselves.

But since our son is an adult living a few hours away, he visits us for the Christmas holiday.

And leaves for home to spend New Year celebrations with his friends.

So we’ve moved out holiday hike to a day during the holidays when we can all get together. This year, our hike was the day after Christmas.

With temperatures in the mid-50’s Farenheit, it was a spring-like walk on the muddy trails to see Downy Woodpeckers, Black-capped Chickadees, Tufted Titmouse, Red-tailed Hawks, and the few remaining Sandhill Cranes near the water.

The trails were filled with people enjoying the unexpected warm weather; we met a family who excitedly told us they saw their first Bald Eagle in Michigan.

We left the trails as the sun was setting and managed to see the albino deer on the road out of the metropark. What a treat!

Happy holidays!

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