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Photo of the Week: Juvenile Rose-breasted Grosbeak

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A stocky brown bird with white wing bars, white stripe over eye, chunky bill, brown streaky white breast with faint rose triangular patch perches on a wooden platform feeder with thick silver supports.

With fall bird migration in our area, I expected to see a number of migrating warblers in our area as they fly south.

What a pleasant surprise to find a juvenile Rose-breasted Grosbeak stop by the platform feeder to feed on some sunflower seeds. (Note the bits of seeds around its bill.)

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Photo of the Week: First Time Visitor at Detroit River Hawk Watch

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An elongated dark brown animal stops on the rocky shoreline before a lake seawall. Lake Erie boat channel with homes across the channel in the background, a wooden park bench with surrounding grass in the foreground.

When I go to the Detroit River Hawk Watch along the Detroit River in southeast Michigan, I expect to see hawks migrating over Lake Erie.

High in the sky in kettles or streaming in a line over the lake as they head south.

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Photo of the Week: Canton 25th Anniversary 9/11 Memorial Ceremony

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Blonde-haired women stands in front of a red-marble plaque with the words In Honor of Those Who Served, In Memory of Those Who Died. In the foreground are the backs of heads of seated audience members. In the background are green-leaved trees against a blue sky and the United States red, white, and blue flag at half-mast.

Attending Canton Township’s 25th anniversary memorial service for September 11, 2001, the clear blue skies and bright sunshine reminded me of the day 25 years ago when the United States was attacked by terrorists.

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