Making the Best of It
(It is July 29, and I just now realized this never got posted back in June – welcome to the COVID Zone) We are making the best of it during …
Echo Lake, Marquette, Michigan
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”]“,”after_widget”:””,”before_title”:” “,”after_title”:””,”widget_id”:”widget-0-0-0″}}” />[/siteorigin_widget] Most of my 20 hours each week were filled with peace and solitude Allow me to preface that first title and embellish it as well. Born …
2019 Thanksgiving Birding on the NC Coast
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] After partially relocating almost half of our living quarters to Upper Michigan, we have spent the past few months back in North Carolina, our home for many decades. …
Bird Migration Peaks in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Bird Migration in Michigan As I enter my first week of June, ever, in the UP, and Marquette, MI., the birds are still flowing in, with some moving …
Bog Walk – Signs of Spring and a Shadowy Sora
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Winds from the south, finally. Over the past month, I have become a wind watcher. It seems to me that many birds have been struggling to get up …
Week Two – Learning Upper Peninsula Birds
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Oh boy, WHERE is Spring? After a few days of teasingly nice spring days, the UP went into refrigerator mode over the weekend. I jokingly told Sheree’ I …
Birding Marquette – The First Week
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Learning the Hotspots Well, I made it UP! In the heart of the Upper Penninsula of Michigan, now it’s time to immerse my southern-ness into the hotspots of …
The Journey North
Leaving North Carolina Up at the crack of dawn, I jumped into the already loaded Outback and towed Puff out the driveway onto Olive Branch Road. I had loaded up …
Spring Walk in the SC Woods
Just three weeks until I journey north, really north, up to the UP of Michigan. We will be settling into our new house in Marquette, Michigan over the next few …
