No need to travel to an amusement park when you can float on ice floating downstream on the Detroit River.
Facing backwards.
At least for the Great Blue Heron I saw this weekend standing on one leg on one of the bigger ice sheets in the shipping channel.
With this weekend’s warmer temperatures, I knew it wouldn’t be long before ice sheets on the Detroit River would melt.
So I headed down to Belle Isle State Park to watch the ice sheets float by.
Some were small sheets, where I saw American herring gulls as well as Bald eagles standing on the floating ice. But other sheets were quite large.
As it turns out, the melting snow has caused a haze over southeast Michigan.
Which is why my photo appears a bit fuzzy.
The haze also prompted an air quality advisory in southeast Michigan, due to lack of wind.
