To start the day we decided to walk to Wildcat Road, about a mile from our cabin. It was a beautiful morning and decided to walk up Wildcat a ways to the large wetland there.
You have to have a good sense of humor to live up here. In June and July the mosquitoes are brutal.
Finding the birch polypore, a fungus is not difficult in the Upper Peninsula. It is attractive although it appears to hurt the trees.
Then we started home and began seeing pairs of Red Crossbills along the road. What a perfect Valentine bird.
A nice male crossbill.
A less brightly colored male and “his” partner.
Hopefully, in the near future all of these pairs of crossbills will be nesting. Who knows maybe we’ll be able to find a nest or two when we’re back from our big trip south.
More later…
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