Photo of the Week: Cattle Egret in Michigan

white slim bird with golden brown head and breast pauses as it feeds in the harvested cornfield.

You’ve likely had this happen to you.

You’re on your way home with a family member, maybe a spouse, child or parent.

It’s late in the evening, you haven’t had dinner, and you want to get home.

You see something interesting on the way home.

Do you stop?

Or head home so you can finally sit down to eat a late dinner? Continue reading Photo of the Week: Cattle Egret in Michigan

Photo of the Week: Least Flycatcher

Small dusky olive-colored bird perched on a shrub branch.

The charming Least Flycatcher isn’t as large as other flycatchers, nor as brilliantly colored as migrating warblers in our area. But the smallest flycatcher in the eastern portion of the United States stands out in the hedgerows and trees with its upright posture and bold white eyering. Least Flycatchers are seen in our southeastern Michigan… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Least Flycatcher

Photo of the Week: Female Yellow-headed Blackbirds

two brown birds with muted yellow face and breast feed in the grassy field.

When I first saw the two birds in the grass near the marsh, I did a double-take. They weren’t Eastern Meadowlarks, they didn’t have the right coloring. Or the type of bill a meadowlark would have. As I peered through my binoculars and watched the birds’ behavior, I finally figured it out. Yellow-headed Blackbirds! Not… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Female Yellow-headed Blackbirds