It was a remarkable week when in one evening, we saw the full moon, Harvest Moon, supermoon, as well as a partial lunar eclipse. On September 17, 2024, we watched from the shore of Lake Erie as the full moon rose in southeast Michigan around 8PM Eastern Daylight Time. A few hours later, we watched… Continue reading Photo of the Week: September 2024 Partial Lunar Eclipse
A relatively cool summer evening and clear skies had me out birding late Friday night, in search of birds feeding from flowering native plants along the Rouge River near Dearborn, Michigan.
While I saw and heard American Goldfinches, Red-winged Blackbirds, and Killdeer, it was a pretty quiet night for birding.
But the full moon made up for a lackluster birding adventure as the golden sphere rose in the southeast sky at dusk.
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With early evening rain and cloudy skies forecast in southeast Michigan, I didn’t think I’d get a chance to see June’s full moon, also known as the strawberry moon.
Thankfully, skies cleared for a while before clouds soon moved over the first full moon of summer.
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