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26 Apr 2021 1 minute read 1 comment tych0_21
Today, I took a walk along the Grand River in Michigan, USA to see what wildlife I could find along the water. My walk began in the meadows above the river's floodplain, but soon I had made my way into the shade of the forests that line the riverbank...
19 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
I went out to a nature of preserve near my home to take some pictures of the migratory birds that stop by to rest on the lake. This time I was lucky enough to come across a small group of sandhill cranes. These are a few photos I was able to take of...
17 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
A few weeks ago, I came across a pair of Mute swans that have made their nest on a lake near my home. I visited the lake this afternoon hoping to get a few pictures of the pair. Not only was I lucky enough to find them both out on the water soon afte...
14 Apr 2021 1 minute read 9 comments tych0_21
October, 2020 January, 2021 March, 2021 April, 2021 Part of what makes nature amazing to me is how much it can change in such a short amount of time. Only a few months ago, this forest was quieted by the chill of winter, but now it is coming back to...
10 Apr 2021 2 minute read 5 comments tych0_21
Today I visited a bog called The Saul Lake Bog Nature Preserve. The preserve is named after John and Mikel Saul, two brothers who emigrated from Ireland and lived on the land beginning in the 1860s. Today, the property is established as a conservati...
8 Apr 2021 1 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
Today, I went out hoping to find my first morels of the year; no luck just yet! That isn't to say that there were not plenty of other teasures waiting to be found out in the woods. Rather than focus my search on one region, I split my time between tw...
5 Apr 2021 1 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
This weekend, I visited a nature reserve situated around a forested lake in Western Michigan, USA. With the coming of Spring and the beginning of the breeding season for the region's many migratory and non-migratory bird species, I went out hoping to...
3 Apr 2021 1 minute read 3 comments tych0_21
Today I returned to one of my favorite woods near my home, a mixed conifer and hardwood forest whose floor is dotted with granite boulder left behind from receding glaciers some 12,000 years ago. While on my walk today, I was visited by a few feather...
4 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
Another old song by a famous Iranian singer called “Siavash Ghomayshi”. A bitter, meaningful, and kind of Nostalgic song that probably all youth of our generation in Iran is familiar with. A song about the philosophy of the “ignorance is a bless”...
15 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Zagham Travel
The rook is a member of the crow family. It is a migratory bird and is found in urban areas. I saw this bird many years ago while driving in a hilly area. At that time, I had not started birding but after several years I saw this bird again. They ar...
