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Photo of the Week: Greater Yellowlegs in Late Autumn

November 22, 2020 By Deborah Edwards-Onoro

Medium-sized white-breasted grayish-brown speckled shorebird with bright yellow legs slowly walks through the grass near the shoreline.

On one of the last warm days of November in southeast Michigan, the Greater Yellowlegs feeding in the shallow waters of Washago Pond at Willow Metropark was a pleasant surprise for me this weekend.

And when I reported my sighting of the bird on eBird, it was flagged as a rare find for this time of the year.

I visited the pond because another birder reported finding a Cackling Goose, which I found as well.

Along with about 300 Canada Geese, almost two dozen Mallards, a couple Hooded Mergansers, and another surprise this late in the season: Yellow-rumped Warblers.

But I wasn’t expecting to find any shorebirds. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Greater Yellowlegs in Late Autumn

Filed Under: Nature Tagged With: birds, birdwatching, Greater Yellowlegs, photo of the week, shorebird

Photo of the Week: Elusive Black-crowned Night Heron

May 1, 2016 By Deborah Edwards-Onoro

Black-crowned Night Heron sitting on a tree limb

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

Filed Under: Michigan, Nature Tagged With: birds, birdwatching, Black-crowned Night Heron, Erie Marsh, Great Lakes, Greater Yellowlegs, Horned Grebe, Mute Swan, Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, photo of the week, spring migration

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