A slender sparrow-sized bird I typically hear long before I see it, the Red-eyed Vireo is a small bird that forages in tree canopies of forests and woodlots.
Making for a more difficult time finding them in the dark shadows in the high branches of deciduous trees.
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I was delighted on my early morning hike at Lake Erie Metropark when I saw a pair of Marsh wrens chasing each other in the eight-foot tall Big bluestem prairie grass.
Once a lawn of green grass extending almost 1/2 mile to the Wave Pool, the area south of Cherry Island Nature Trail was converted to native prairie grasses a few years ago.
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To put it mildly, it’s been quite a week in my hometown.
And for many folks throughout Michigan.
In a period of two days, our southeast Michigan community encountered: