Photo of the Week: Who Wants to Drive Around Lake Erie?

red sandstone castle-like structure of the Connecticut Street Armory, framed with blue sky and green leaves of tree branches

Living near the Great Lakes gives you amazing opportunities to travel to interesting places, whether it’s the beautiful Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Lake Superior in Michigan, Coventry Garden in Windsor, Ontario overlooking the Detroit River, or the magnificent Niagara FallsContinue reading Photo of the Week: Who Wants to Drive Around Lake Erie?

Photo of the Week: Shiny Cowbird in Michigan

Shiny Cowbird walks along the green grass, pecking for food.

“This looks like the place to be”, I said as I sat down on the bench behind the Whitefish Point Bird Observatory, on the shore of Lake Superior, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

I took a look about, and noticed there were a lot of birders sitting on the benches, their cameras with their long lenses all focused on the same black bird on the ground. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Shiny Cowbird in Michigan