Only three of us were at Erie Marsh Preserve along southwestern Lake Erie near the Michigan/Ohio border this weekend as the sun slowly set over the wetland. It was a calm, relatively cool night for early August as the day’s winds had finally slowed down. As I walked the trail back to my vehicle, I… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Summer Evening at Erie Marsh
It’s a gorgeous day in southeast Michigan. Cooler temperatures, nice breeze, bright sunshine, and blue skies have me feeling like it’s already autumn.
Even though we have another month of summer.
Today’ cool temperatures made me think of lighthouses, places we often visit when we’re traveling in fall. And while listening to the morning news, I discovered today is National Lighthouse Day.
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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.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: Buck Moon