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Photo of the Week: Mourning Doves

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A pair of tan-brown birds with black dots on their wings, pink legs, and long pointed tails, the Mourning Doves perch on the edge of the square bird feeder. One bird has its wing slightly outstretched as it lands on the feeder edge.

A bird I see year round in our southeast Michigan area, the slender, graceful Mourning Dove is a bird I see or hear daily. Their coo-coo sound is often the first sound I hear in the morning. This morning, with our constant rainfall, this pair of Mourning Doves joined the local House Wrens, Northern Cardinals,… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Mourning Doves

It’s Back! BirdCast Launched March 1

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Outline of the 48 contiguous states in the United States showing green or red dots for weather relay stations on a black background. Bands of bright color highlight migration and a legend describes what the bright colors represent on the map. Three bands of blue color indicate low levels of migration in southern California, Texas, and Florida moving north.

One of my favorite online birding resources returned March 1, 2024, highlighting bird migration in the United States.

A free online tool, Birdcast is the result of 20+ years of research, providing real-time predictions of bird migration using weather surveillance radar to gather information.

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Photo of the Week: An Unexpected Snowy Owl

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White owl with dark barring across the underbelly, white face with yellow eyes peers down from a post.

I never would imagine I would find an Eastern Meadowlark, one of the signs of spring in southeast Michigan at a nearby birding site this week, only to find a sign of winter at the same location the next day.

But that’s exactly what happened when an unexpected Snowy Owl appeared at a local airport.

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