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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

Photo of the Week: Holiday Hike at Kensington Metropark

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sunset over the trees, see from the Nature Center trail overlooking Kent Lake.

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… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Holiday Hike at Kensington Metropark

Photo of the Week: Last Full Moon of the Decade

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yellowish full moon glows in the blue sky over the bare tree tops.

With brisk west winds from the harvested cornfield behind me, it was a freezing cold December afternoon as I patiently waited on the edge of the fallow field for the Short-eared Owls to appear before dusk. Birdwatching takes me to all kinds of places with extreme temperatures, from rain to snow, to 90 degrees Farenheit… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Last Full Moon of the Decade

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