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Photo of the Week: Kentucky Warbler Along Lake Huron Shoreline

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Kentucky Warbler

Whether I’m out in nearby woods and marshes, the southern shore of Lake Erie or the shore of another Great Lake, my weekends are spent birding.

Peering through leaf-strewn marshland, harvested cornfields, bare shrub branches and leafed out tree canopies in cold, rainy, snowy, and sometimes sunny weather, I search for birds.

This weekend was no different from any previous weekend in 2019, but it was special because it was during the annual spring warbler migration in Michigan. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Kentucky Warbler Along Lake Huron Shoreline

Photo of the Week: Prairie Trillium

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One of the first and most plentiful Trilliums to bloom in the spring, the Prairie Trillium is often overlooked in our Michigan woods by the shear number of flowering Great White Trillium on the forest floor.

The Prairie Trillium has upright maroon blossoms without stalks, mottled green leaves, and grows to 12-18 inches tall. I’ve only seen single Prairie Trilliums in southeast Michigan, I’ve never seen them en masse.

I saw this Prairie Trillium on the trails around the University of Michigan Dearborn Environmental Interpretation Center. I love the maroon color of the flower!

Photo of the Week: Global Big Day 2019

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Eastern Kingbird at Howard Marsh, near Bono, Ohio

My Global Big Day of birding this weekend started at 7:14am Saturday morning and ended over 12 hours later at 8:33pm when a Great Blue Heron flew over Metzger Marsh as the sun was setting on the southwestern shore of Lake Erie.

Thankful for a good weather day with no rain, I saw 701 birds in seven locations in the states of Michigan and Ohio.

This year I saw 71 species, with 10 first-of-year birds, including one life bird (a bird I’ve never seen before): Swamp Sparrow. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Global Big Day 2019

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