With a reprieve from hot weather, rain, and air quality alerts, this weekend I traveled to Lake Erie’s southwest shore in Ohio to check out shorebird, waterfowl, and terns.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: Short-Billed DowitcherWhy I Turned to the Time and Date Website for the Weather Forecast
I remember how excited I was when I got a new smartphone and it had a weather widget installed.
I could quickly check the current weather. Eventually, the widget expanded to provide weather forecasts.
Nice!
But over the years, the smartphone weather widget had problems.
Sometimes it worked, but most times it didn’t even display on the phone.
Continue reading Why I Turned to the Time and Date Website for the Weather ForecastPhoto of the Week: Monarch Butterfly on Swamp Milkweed
With my plans to create a more bird and butterfly friendly yard, last year I replanted one of my flowers beds with Swamp Milkweed and other native Michigan plants. The milkweed plants had a couple blossoms last summer, which surprised me. From my research, I understood it would take a year for milkweed to establish… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Monarch Butterfly on Swamp Milkweed