Election results, bills passing in state legislatures, and terrible weather news around the world can make for a challenging day.
Sometimes we all need a break. Continue reading We Saw a Kingbird, Cowbird, and a Tree Swallow or Two
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Photo of the Week: Elusive Black-crowned Night Heron
What a pleasant surprise I had yesterday! I added three life birds (Horned Grebe, Lesser Scaup, and American Golden Plover) to my birding list, and saw lots of migrating water birds and several neotropical songbirds near Lake Erie.
It was wonderful to see the life birds, though I wish I had been able to capture better shots of them (you’ll see a shot of the Horned Grebe at the end of this post).
Nonetheless, one of the birds that stood out for me was the Black-crowned Night Heron I saw at Erie Marsh Preserve in Monroe Michigan, just north of the Ohio border. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Elusive Black-crowned Night Heron
Photo of the Week: Bonaparte’s Gulls at Ford Lake
Spring brings thousands of birds through southeastern Michigan, as raptors, songbirds, and waterbirds migrate north to Canada and beyond for their summer breeding season.
And this weekend, spring migration brought through the Bonaparte’s Gull, a small bird that winters along the coastline of Texas, Mississippi, and Mexico, but spends its summer breeding season in the taiga and boreal forest of central and western Canada. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Bonaparte’s Gulls at Ford Lake