spring migration

Photo of the Week: Kentucky Warbler Along Lake Huron Shoreline

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small olive-colored bird with yellow face and black v-shaped mask pauses on leaf-strewn ground.

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: Caspian Tern on a Fishing Expedition

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Caspian Tern soaring through the blue sky

Spring seems to have finally arrived in southeast Michigan!

Which meant I spent my weekend looking for spring bird migrants as they made their way to their breeding areas in northern Michigan and Canada.

Heading into Robert B. Long Park in Oakland County yesterday morning, I met up with a pair of birders who had just left the trail. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Caspian Tern on a Fishing Expedition

Photo of the Week: Wood Ducks are Back!

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brightly colored white, red, and green male Wood Duck and his rather drab mate in her brownish plumage

You know spring has returned to southeast Michigan when you see the unmistakable Wood Ducks in the ponds of flooded harvested corn fields.

Wood Ducks are one of the first migrating waterfowl to return to southeast Michigan in late winter and early spring.

And there’s no way anyone can mistake the brilliant colors of the male Wood Duck with other waterfowl. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Wood Ducks are Back!

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