Photo of the Week: Secretive Sora in the Marsh

Brownish-gray marsh bird with white-tipped feathers on the back, yellow bill, and greenish legs skulks low to the ground as it forages in the algae-covered mudflat and cattail reeds.

Hiding in the cattails, the secretive Sora is a challenging marsh bird to find whether it’s early summer or late fall when they’re migrating south to warmer temperatures. And the Sora at Kensington Metropark I saw this week confirmed how elusive they can be to find. A member of the rail family, Soras are football-shaped… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Secretive Sora in the Marsh

Photo of the Week: Kensington Metropark in Fall Colors

Brilliant orange, yellow and red colors of the leaves line the shore of the blue lake, the refelection of the leaves and blue sky with white clouds in the water.

One of the reasons I love living in Michigan is because we have four seasons. And fall is one of the most beautiful times of the year when our trees change color.

With warmer temperatures this fall, floods in the summer, and drought last spring, our gorgeous fall color was delayed this year in southeast Michigan.

Typically we see fall foilage change color in early and mid October.

But not this year.

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