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A beautiful Moon before sunrise. Then in the late morning it was time to head off and look for plants and insects Hepatica, still a month away from budding and blooming. So there’s still a lot of time to get out and see these. Blue ash, now a fairly rare tree in Michigan. Skunk cabbageContinue reading “Nan Weston in February”

I hope that everybody got to spend the day with somebody special. I know that I did. Snoopy and Woodstock have such a special relationship. Our day started with breakfast at Village Kitchen. And went on from there. For a late lunch we went to Los Tres Amigos in Chelsea. Which was perfect since weContinue reading “Valentine’s Day”

Helga borrowed Hägar’s shield for a good reason. Cartoonists are getting a lot of milage out of the Chinese balloon. He’s one of the Neanderthals that voted for 45. Maybe I should have saved this for the duck season. And now, on to Marjory Taylor-Meme! I was wondering how long it would take for thisContinue reading “Monday is meme-day”

Charles Darwin was born on February 12 1809. He collected finch specimens in the 1830s on the Galapagos Islands. They were one of the critical species involved with his describing the process of evolution. The finches were first called Darwin’s finches in 1936 by Percy Lowe. One of the highlights of my teaching career atContinue reading “Charles Darwin”

A beautiful Moon this morning. Then it was time for birds. The idea that I can photograph birds that are only six feet away always makes me smile. Male Pine Grosbeak on the deck. Juvenile male Pine Grosbeak. I often ignore the fact that we have 10-15 Black-capped Chickadees coming to our feeders. Pine GrosbeaksContinue reading “Winter birds at Whitefish Point”

We drove to Rudyard yesterday hoping to see a few owls and who knows what else. We stopped for gas first and saw a raven diving at something on the Rudyard water tower. Yep – it was our first (of five) Snowy Owls for the day. We also managed to see a few Northern Shrikes,Continue reading “Cruising roads looking for raptors”

A beautiful sunny day at the Upper Falls. What was even better was that there were no other people there when we were. I can never remember this happening before. As we got closer to the falls you could see all of the ice on the other side. As we were even closer to theContinue reading “A winter day at Tahquamenon Falls”

Under our feeders we had a large flock of Pine Grosbeaks – here are 7 of the 17 that were here. Here’s a male Pine Grosbeak at a feeder. A clear warm morning meant that there were good views of the Moon. These photos were taken two hours apart. A poor photo of a SpruceContinue reading “A February morning in Paradise”

Crossing the Mackinac Bridge yesterday we finally saw some ice. It’s still disturbing to see open water in January. Approaching St. Ignace in the Upper Peninsula. Then it was time to head further north to fins some birds. Checked the roads at Rudyard where we found two Snowy Owls, not counting the two on theContinue reading “Back in the snowy north”

We’d better start looking more closely at images from Mars as it is apparently a vacation resort. But here in the Northern Hemisphere on Earth it’s still winter. If you have fewer birds at your bird feeders check for notes with a forwarding address. If you’re our ice fishing be careful! And don’t forget toContinue reading “Gray cool morning humor”