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Photo of the Week: American Tree Sparrow, Our Winter Visitor

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brown-gray bird with white side bars perches on bare tree branch.

Flocking in scraggly shrubs, near bird feeders, or snow-covered fields, American Tree Sparrows are a common sight in southeast Michigan in winter. They only spend a few months in our area. The birds migrate from their homes near the northern tree line in northern Canada and Alaska for fall and return home in early spring.… Continue reading Photo of the Week: American Tree Sparrow, Our Winter Visitor

Photo of the Week: Mississagi Freighter on the Detroit River

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Mississagi freighter travels along the Detroit River

While I do a fair amount of bird watching at Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan, one of other hobbies I enjoy while I’m on the island is watching the freighters on the Detroit River.

It’s fun to see the Algowood in the fog or Dorothy Ann-Pathfinder traveling the waters on their way upbound to the Soo Locks or downbound to Windsor or cities further south.

This weekend I saw the Mississagi freighter on one of its last trips for the season, downbound on the Detroit River shipping channel to Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Mississagi Freighter on the Detroit River

Photo of the Week: Holiday Hike at Kensington Metropark

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sunset over the trees, see from the Nature Center trail overlooking Kent Lake.

One of our family holiday traditions is hiking the trails at Kensington Metropark Nature Center, near Milford in southeast Michigan. In the past, when our son was younger and in grade school, we would hike on New Year’s Day. Not a day when many people are out at the metroparks; we often had the trails… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Holiday Hike at Kensington Metropark

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