Photo of the Week: Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Gray bird perched on log, with black and white face, yellow crown, and long yellow plumes on back of head and back.

Word spread quickly in our southeast Michigan birding community when the Yellow-crowned Night Heron was reported at a popular birding spot in Washtenaw County.

By the time I arrived in the evening, just before dusk, more than two dozen birders and photographers had already posted their sighting of the medium-sized heron.

What was everyone excited about? Continue reading Photo of the Week: Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Photo of the Week: Picasso Was Here! House

two-story gray house, half-painted with pink sits on an overgrown green lawn in downtown Plymouth.

I didn’t know the backstory behind the house in downtown Plymouth, Michigan, but the pink colored house sure caught my attention as I traveled into the downtown area. With the handwritten bright pink “Picasso Was Here!“ sign on the front lawn, you can’t miss the house on Ann Arbor Trail, a couple blocks east of… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Picasso Was Here! House