heinrick05 (heinrick ingenson) writes: Ellie and I enjoying a walk in Dighton, Michigan, not far from our home. These hills are the highest in the Lower Peninsula. In the hay field to left, there is a herd of deer grazing. Check out his photo sets including Kalkaska County, Wexford County (plus more counties) and Michigan [...]
The first-ever Traverse Colantha Walker Dairy Festival takes place on the grounds of The Village at Grand Traverse Commons on Sunday, June 13th. Why a festival for a cow, and why this cow? It seems that Traverse Colantha Walker was not your ordinary heifer. Some Cow: The Story of Traverse Colantha Walker Of the 96 [...]
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Struttin’ by Terry Doyle The Pere Marquette Chapter of the Michigan Wild Turkey Hunters Association will host the 29th Annual Wild Turkey Hunters Rendezvous and State Calling Championships on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at Baldwin High School (map). The doors open at 8 AM and the program begins at 9 with $5 for adults and [...]
Yes, I’m a toad with a bug on my nose by firechicktick Yesterday on Michigan in Pictures, I featured the Northern Green Frog (Rana clamitans). A scant hour later, I got an email from Laura Bien of the Ann Arbor Chronicle letting me know about her article, In the Archives: The Toad Survey of 1910. [...]
December 4, 2009 – 6:59 am
Daryl says that he took this photo in a marshy part of Lake Erie in Monroe County. You can see it and a few other shots on his map and check it out larger in his Colorful Skies slideshow. His other sets include Barns and Outbuildings and Autumn. Check out his Flickriver. Share this:
November 23, 2009 – 9:59 am
In Voracious Asian carp poised to upset Great Lakes, theChicago Tribune reports: Conservationists and government biologists, stunned by new indications of the advance of Asian carp toward Lake Michigan, are trading ideas for poisoning Chicago-area rivers, conducting emergency electrofishing or chemically neutering the wily fish. On Friday, sophisticated genetic testing near Chicago found evidence of [...]
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October 6, 2009 – 8:04 am
This article originally appeared on Leelanau.com – click the photo for a bigger view! The Michigan Wildlife Conservancy has released results of an investigation that appears to validate a cougar presence in Michigan. The apparent cougar was photographed near the south shore of Glen Lake in Leelanau County: On Labor Day, September 7, 2009 Dr. [...]
We wanted to draw attention to this annual event in Lansing as it is something every city in Michigan should consider emulating. It is just too easy to grow into the mind set that where you reside there is absolutely nothing to do or that you have already seen it, done it, surfed it. We [...]
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The photo featured today shows a cluster of nests at a Michigan heronry and was shot by Sentrawoods. Sentrawoods. adds: This location was shown to me by my local flickr friend gerrybuckel. If you enlarge this you’ll see seven maybe eight heron’s nesting. I plan on getting much closer in the days to come. The [...]
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Courtesy Michigan in Pictures… In Flight, photo by Mi Bob. As yesterday’s Traverse City Record-Eagle reported: The bald eagle is now off both state and federal endangered species lists for Michigan. But the federal Bald Eagle Protection Act of 1940 makes it a crime to hunt, kill or otherwise harm them. Fewer than 100 nests [...]
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