Photo of the Week: Juvenile Rose-breasted Grosbeak

A stocky brown bird with white wing bars, white stripe over eye, chunky bill, brown streaky white breast with faint rose triangular patch perches on a wooden platform feeder with thick silver supports.

With fall bird migration in our area, I expected to see a number of migrating warblers in our area as they fly south.

What a pleasant surprise to find a juvenile Rose-breasted Grosbeak stop by the platform feeder to feed on some sunflower seeds. (Note the bits of seeds around its bill.)

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Photo of the Week: First Time Visitor at Detroit River Hawk Watch

An elongated dark brown animal stops on the rocky shoreline before a lake seawall. Lake Erie boat channel with homes across the channel in the background, a wooden park bench with surrounding grass in the foreground.

When I go to the Detroit River Hawk Watch along the Detroit River in southeast Michigan, I expect to see hawks migrating over Lake Erie.

High in the sky in kettles or streaming in a line over the lake as they head south.

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