Three hungry goldfinches enjoy a snack at the bird feeders near Swedetown Creek in Hancock on Friday, May 23. Click on photo for larger version. (Photo © 2008 Gustavo Bourdieu)A short walk down the path to the creek led to a peaceful spot near the water where the birdsongs seemed to announce the arrival of spring -- at last.
Swedetown Creek, near Portage Lake, is a peaceful spot for watching migratory birds and listening to their songs. (Video clip © 2008 Michele Bourdieu)
The Copper Country Audubon Club has offered the City of Hancock $1000 and volunteer work for maintenance if the City decides to make the area at the mouth of Swedetown Creek a park.
Editor's Note: At their meeting on May 21, the Hancock City Council did not take a re-vote on whether or not Government Lot 5 is or should be a park. Watch for an update on this issue, coming soon.
The Copper Country Audubon Club has offered the City of Hancock $1000 and volunteer work for maintenance if the City decides to make the area at the mouth of Swedetown Creek a park.
Editor's Note: At their meeting on May 21, the Hancock City Council did not take a re-vote on whether or not Government Lot 5 is or should be a park. Watch for an update on this issue, coming soon.
Update: Whimbrel spotted at Hermit's Cove
On the other side of the Keweenaw Peninsula, a few miles north on U.S. 41, local birder David Flaspohler, associate professor in Michigan Tech's School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, spotted a Whimbrel at about 9 a.m. on Sunday, May 25. Flaspohler photographed the bird at Hermit's Cove, between Gay and Lac La Belle.
David Flaspohler spotted this Whimbrel Sunday morning, May 25, on the beach at Hermit's Cove, between Gay and Lac La Belle. Click on photos for larger versions. (Photo © 2008 and courtesy David Flaspohler)
The Whimbrel is a kind of Curlew, a genus of wader or shorebird species that breed across areas of subarctic North America, Europe (as far south as Scotland) and Asia. In September 1977 the Whimbrel inspired a stamp in the Faroe Islands.
The Whimbrel is the subject of a stamp issued on Sept. 29, 1977, in the Faroe Islands, located between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, north of Scotland, between Iceland and Norway. The Faroe Islands (meaning "sheep islands") have been an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Denmark since 1948. This mage (from Wikipedia) is in the public domain, released by the copyright holder Postverk Føroya -- Philatelic Office.
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