We arrived at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens early enough to set up our stations before beople started showing up. The start of the evening as people starting appearing. Some of the 68 participants hearing about where the stations were and how we were doing things. One of our further stations before people were on theContinue reading “Moth night – Matthaei Botanical Gardens – 2025”
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Ann Arbor Art Fair – 2025
We walked down to Art Fair, but first stopped at Kerrytown. Ant artist who did drawings of stadiums. Here’s his drawing of Tiger stadium. My favorite of the day. A photograpger who did underwater photography. Here’s the artist. The logo for this year. Starting out early meant not everybody was opened yet, but there wereContinue reading “Ann Arbor Art Fair – 2025”
Piping Plovers at Whitefish Point, Michigan
This year there was another successful Piping Plover nest at Whitefish Point. The point itself has been expanding after an early winter storm took out the point in the recent past. I think that this is a molting female plover, she still has some black feathers. This bird was not very far from the hatchingsContinue reading “Piping Plovers at Whitefish Point, Michigan”
Bald Eagles in Michigan
First, second, third and fourth year Bald Eagles (left to right) sketches by me. During migration there is a progression of age classes of Bald Eagles. Early migration is dominated by adult birds and second year birds. Then as migration progresses there is a steady increase in first year birds. Third year birds are leastContinue reading “Bald Eagles in Michigan”
Bird drawings
The other day when we drove to Brimley we didn’t photograph any birds. But I have drawings of some of the birds that we saw. Black-capped Chickadees are common all over the state, but as nesting birds are far fewer than we see them in winter and during migration. Red-breasted Nuthatches as with chickadees areContinue reading “Bird drawings”
Another anniversary
We spent our anniversary driving a favorite road looking for birds and heading to the Dancing Crane for lunch treats. One of the many creeks that we crossed which are all nice for birds. Susan spotted a ragged fringed orchid at one of the places that we stopped. A close-up of the ragged fringed orchid.Continue reading “Another anniversary”
Urban gardeners
Last week, before we headed north to Whitefish Point and after we were no longer feeling the effects of having the flu we started working on our garden. The first thing that we did was start harvesting garlic. The heads come out of the ground, get trimmed and then are woven into an old babyContinue reading “Urban gardeners”
Western Canada: Day-8
We started our day early, got breakfast then went to the Dawson City airport for a flight to Inuvik in the Northwest Territory. Since the weather for the next day looked iffy we decided to drive to Tuktoyaktuk as soon as we could, which was a great decision. We made it all the way toContinue reading “Western Canada: Day-8”
Western Canada: Day-7
This is the day that we went up the Dempster Highway to Kilometer-159 This highway is a beautiful gravel road through boreal forest. We found a pair of American Dippers collecting nesting material. We found several caribou with collars. We also had great looks at moose. Susan making sure that we were on the rightContinue reading “Western Canada: Day-7”
Western Canada: Day-6
We Drove from Dawson City into Alaska today. Another interesting day. It wasn’t a long day, but it was fun. This was the day that I started coughing and running a low-grade fever. Short-eared Owls became a daily bird from today on. The border crossing at the Yukon – Alaska border. We got there rightContinue reading “Western Canada: Day-6”
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