Photo of the Week: Orchard Oriole at Lower Huron Metropark

Black bird with deep orange breast leans over as it forages for food in the white-blossomed crab apple tree.

I thought it strange when my husband reported seeing an Orchard Oriole  on a car in a parking lot at Lower Huron Metropark near Belleville, Michigan, pecking at the side view mirror.

My husband explained it seemed the bird saw its reflection in the mirror.

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What I Found Interesting: April 16, 2025

Green-colored copper sculpture of girl laying down on her stomach on the ground reading a book, brown mulch surround the sculpture, green-leafed white-flowered shrubs in the background.

A novel idea for moving over 9,000 books, ibises following their foster human parents on a migration journey from the Alps to Spain, and evidence suggesting how the Egyptian pyramids were really built are a few of the fascinating stories I’ve read and enjoyed over the past month.

I hope you enjoy them, too!

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