Week down by the River - January 20, 2015

On Saturday I took a ride down to Roberts Rd and Campau Road where usually there is activity.  Even went to Lake Erie Metro Park where the only activity were the deer at 8 a.m.  So I decided to make two trips to the River at the end of Southfield Road. 

The photos shown were taken between January 10th and January 17th.

Blue Heron

Bufflehead

Canvasback and Mallard

Canvasback (females)

Canvasback (male)

Common Merganser

Goldeneye

Hooded Mergansers

Mallard (female)

Mallard (male) flaps down

Mallard (female) flaps down

Tundra and Mute Swans

Mute Swan

Tundra Swans

Redhead

Redheads coming in for a landing

Sunrise on the River

Tundra Swan

Magee Marsh - May 23, 2014

Decided to give myself a long weekend, so I took my last floating holiday (not to worry still have 20 vacations days to take) and go down to Magee Marsh this morning.  I wasn't sure what I was going to see there since I don't know how long the birds hang around after the biggest week of birding ends.

The first photo taken was a family of geese (photographed 5 babies - there were 6 the other one was closer to mom).  I saw Canada Warblers, Wilson's Warbler, Indigo Bunting, Baltimore Orioles, Yellow Warblers, American Red-starts (female), Warbling Vireo's, Common Yellow-throats, Prothonotary Warbler, Gray Catbird, House Wrens, Thrush (not sure which one) and three Night Hawks (all in different locations).

Here's what I photographed:

 

Baltimore Oriole

 

Canada Warbler

 

Gray Catbird

 

House Wren

 

Night Hawk

 

Prothonotary Warbler

 

Wilson's Warbler

 

Yellow Warbler

 

Tomorrow Greenfield Village...

Detroit Zoo - part 2 - May 18, 2014

This is part 2 of the photos taken at the Detroit Zoo.  This isn't all of the photos taken, but these are the ones worth showing.

 

Ricky, Clare and Charlie - Thank you for a Great Day

 

African Spoonbill

 

African Zebra

 

Binturang (Body of a Bear - Face of a Cat - I don't get the tail)

 

Binturang

 

Bush Dog

 

Chilean Flamingo's

 

Red-faced Chimpanzee

 

Cinereous Vultures

 

Crested Screamers

 

Crey Crowned Cranes

 

Kudu (female)

 

Razor-back Gorilla

 

Red Panda

 

White Rhino's

 

Large Anteater

 

If you haven't been to the Detroit Zoo yet - you really need to go.  There were a lot more animals there, unfortunately a lot of them were sleeping and photographing a sleeper didn't make sense to me. It was a fun time and I enjoyed myself.  I will definitely go back this year.  

Detroit Zoo - May 18, 2014

With Mother's Day behind us the kids and I decided to either go to Greenfield Village or the Detroit Zoo.  Since I hadn't been to the zoo in a long time the choice was made.  Greenfield Village would have to wait until next weekend. 

I was very impressed by how clean the zoo was and how well the animals looked, it certainly didn't look like the zoo I knew.

With camera in tow I took pictures of probably every animal there - well maybe I missed a few.  Really should leave some for next visit, especially the Butterfly and Bird House.

Here is a sample of what you will find in the Butterfly and Bird House:

 

African Monarch

 

Jambu Fruit Dove (male)

 

 

Long-wing, Tiger

 

 

Postman

 

Long-wing, Hewitsoni

 

Long-wing, Tiger

 

Morpho, Blue

 

Red-billed Leiothrix (would like to go back just to get a cleaner photo)

 

Tiger-wing, Cream Spotted

 

Bare-faced Curassow

 

 

Because this post would probably go on forever, I've decided to do this in two. Now let's move on to my second post for the Zoo - the Animals...