In the midday heat of the summer, I don’t typically see many birds active in marshes.
A few Great Egrets and Great Blue Herons can be found along the shorelines.
Or perhaps a Wood Duck with their duckling family or Trumpeter Swans with their cygnets.
It can be pretty quiet in the marshes, except for the calls of the Red-Winged Blackbird.
But I’ll often see terns as they fly and circle over canals and marshes.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: Tasty Tidbit for a Tern
Along with dozens of other birders in southeast Michigan and beyond, I traveled to Lake Erie Metropark in Brownstown Township, Michigan in late May to look for the slender Wilson’s Phalarope, a rare shorebird for Wayne County, Michigan.
Smaller and more slender than a Killdeer, the Wilson’s Phalarope has a needle-thin black bill, cinnamon colored neck, white breast, broad black strip on the gray back, with lanky black legs during breeding season. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Wilson’s Phalarope at Lake Erie Metropark
The black and white shorebird with long legs, short neck, and round head calmly grazed in the grass next to the parking lot, oblivious to the delighted birders who looked on from a distance through their binoculars and spotting scope. A Black-bellied Plover isn’t a rare occurrence at Howard Marsh Metropark on the southwestern shore… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Black-bellied Plover at Howard Marsh