A Window Into The Past – Fayette State Park
Fayette State Park, an abandoned iron smelting town, was on our short list of places to visit in the UP (Upper Peninsula of Michigan) for…
Summer Hikes in Marquette County
From the Wetmore parking area, I hiked up the Beagle Road Trail, which led to the Who Cooks For you Trail, and eventually up to…
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…
Echo Lake, Marquette, Michigan
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….
2019 Thanksgiving Birding on the NC Coast
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…
October Stirs Up Superior
Presque Isle, Marquette, Michigan In what might be labeled the first real signs that the short Autumn season is coming to a close, Lake Superior…
Colors of Autumn in the U.P.
Drive to McCormick Wilderness Headed west Sunday morning to look for some unique birds (Boreal Chickadee and Canada Jay) in the beautiful autumn forests of…
Bird Migration Peaks in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
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,…
Bog Walk – Signs of Spring and a Shadowy Sora
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…
Week Two – Learning Upper Peninsula Birds
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…
Birding Marquette – The First Week
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 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…
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,…
Let’s Get Back To It!
Well, that was quite a blogging break I took, but now I am ready to rock and roll. There will be some big changes in…
2018 Thanksgiving NC Coast Birding
Going on ten years, our annual Thanksgiving trip to birding hotspots of northeastern North Carolina provided great weather, magnificent birds, and great scenery. Scott and…
U.P. Adventures – Summer 2018
Take me to the land of cooler temperatures, longer twilights, and starier skies. As I sit here in Hartwick State Park, Michigan, beginning to write this…
Marvelous Magee
Before I get into how marvelous Magee Marsh is, allow me to share some birding on the way north, at Pilot Mountain State Park (NC)…
Chasing Warblers and other wild things
Heading north…. After some solo trips, and a few overnighters together, this trip would be our first multi-day multi-campsite adventure. As we continue…
It’s a Swamp Thing
Merchants Millpond State Park We loaded Puff up, plopped the kayaks on the car roof, and took off for a few days of Eastern North Carolina…
Neuse River Trail and Falls Lake Dam
Spring walk down the river and up on the dam Some days it is nice to bird on a paved path, so I drove over…
Falls Lake- Rollingview SRA
Bird Camping Falls Lake We parked our teardrop trailer at Rollingview SRA campground for a long weekend. It was really nice sitting outside listening to the…
Mid-April Birds and a Frog
After the Deluge April always delivers a few wicked cold fronts. Last night we had heavy rain, strong winds but fortunately no tornadoes (Greensboro did)….
Northeast North Carolina Coast in Late February
Better late than….. On February 24 I hooked Puff up and took off for the coast. I had not been to the coast since Thanksgiving when…
Puff the M@gic Dr@gon on the BRP
Puff, Puff, Puff The big test. I wondered since before purchasing our T@B trailer, “how will it perform in the mountains behind a Subaru Outback…
NC/SC Coastal Birding in September
I had great expectations on birding from Nags Head to Litchfield Beach, S.C., but Mother Nature had other plans. Hurricane Maria was just strong enough…
Big Bald Bird Banding
Remembering from two years ago This blog posting has been on the back burner for quite a while, but it was such an enjoyable birding…
Ohio/Michigan Summer Birding
Summer Birds in Ohio and Michigan Birding was not the focus of this trip but we had some success none the less. Most of the…
Savannah National Wildlife Refuge
Go fly a KITE! On a family trip to Savannah, I saw the opportunity to get my Georgia list cranked up (currently at 21). Well,…
Summer Yard Birding
Hot, Quiet, and Ugly Birds! Summer Yard Birding (click links for audio)I miss New York summers, the lower humidity, cooler nights, a summer breeze. And,…
Prairie Ridge and Lake Crabtree
Prairie Ridge Exercise more than birds got me outside today. I have been reading the migration reports at BirdCast and looking at…
Abbott’s Creek/Neuse River Greenway
A quick March afternoon walk I have had this area on my list for a while, but alas, I could not seem to get up…
Neuse River Trail – 32 Catbirds and one Black-billed Cuckoo
October 2, 2016 Making the effort to get more exercise, I took a bike and bird trip down the Neuse River Trail. My reward…
Western UP Trip 2022
After a hectic week driving up and down the entire state of Michigan, we arrived back home in Marquette late Saturday evening. Sister Kathy and…