When you hike trails, you find all kinds of interesting things. Including this pair of beautiful hand-knit mittens on the boardwalk over a wetland area. I hope the owner returned to the trail and found them.
Ask a birder about finding owls, and their advice will be to go out at dawn or dusk. Or the middle of the night to hear the owls calling.
But not if you’re looking for Short-eared Owls.
Which are one of the few owls active during the day and night, especially during breeding season.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: Short-eared Owl in Monroe County
Not sure how I missed it in previous years, but I only learned a couple weeks ago about the ninth annual Art Advent Calendar.
Started by Jay Bigam, a self-taught artist in Alberta, Canada, Art Advent Calendar launched in 2015 with the idea of brightening and improving timelines for folks on the platform originally called Twitter.
Continue reading Art Advent Calendar 2023