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Photo of the Week: American Robin Egg

May 24, 2026 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro
A delicate pale blue egg sits on brown wood mulch; two small green seedlings popping through the mulch.

When I walked the neighborhood, a roundish pale blue shape stood out in the wood mulch pathway between an evergreen shrub and blackberry bush.

When I stopped, it looked like a small blue American robin egg. And it appeared to be fully intact.

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Categories Photography Tags American robin, bird egg, birds, Michigan, photo of the week

Photo of the Week: Dunlin, Migrating Shorebird

May 17, 2026 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro
Medium sized brownish-red backed shorebird with black patch on a white belly pauses as it forages in the shallow waters of a wetland.

Usually I have to travel to Lake Erie to see migrating shorebirds in spring and fall. But every so often they stop to forage in some of our nearby wetlands on their way to/from their breeding grounds on the tundra.

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Categories Photography Tags birds, Dunlin, Michigan, photo of the week, spring migration

Photo of the Week: Pectoral Sandpiper

April 26, 2026 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro
A brown and white sandpiper stands in a flooded feild, surrounded by blue water and green plant tufts. The bird's wings are upright as it gets ready to take flight.

Spring migration is in full swing in southeast Michigan, with songbirds, waterfowl, and shorebirds making their way through and from our area on their journey north.

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Categories Photography Tags birding, birds, birdwatching, Pectoral sandpiper, photo of the week, shorebird
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