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… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Great Blue Heron on the Detroit River
A daily online word puzzle with a twist, five short videos about backyard birds, and the world’s oldest cave art are a few of the interesting stories I’ve enjoyed in the past month.
I hope you enjoy them, too!
Continue reading What I Found Interesting: January 28, 2026
Despite snow and sub-zero Fahrenheit temperatures this weekend, I started my Saturday with our local Wild Ones chapter winter sowing native plant seeds with several dozen gardeners at the University of Michigan-Dearbon Environmental Interpretive Center (EIC).
While I was at the EIC, I knew I wanted to stop at the Observation Room and check out the new Feeder Bird Symphony mural I learned about from the January 2026 newsletter.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: Feeder Bird Symphony Mural