My two sandhill crane families have safely returned to their regular spots in Kingsley farm country. I caught the non-breeding pair drinking from a vernal pool and wondered if this would be the year they’d finally breed. I found the other pair feasting in a cornfield with their eleven-month-old adolescent tagging along. It will leave its parents once they begin breeding. From the looks of the dancing energy going on between the parents, that will be soon.
Hawks are the most prevalent raptors in our area with red-tailed the most common. I also a dark morph of this rough-legged hawk in the same area. I’m never sure of a definite ID, though, until they take flight and I see their underwings and tail feathers.
My latest book The Lure has now arrived on Audible. The audiobook is another collaboration with classmate and narrator Stephen Marsden. The Lure continues to be available in e-book and paperback formats at all online bookstores (Barnes&Nobles, Apple, Amazon, etc.) and in your favorite local bookstore.
The Lure is the second installment of my Northwoods Mystery Series featuring Forensic Detective Quinn Macarthy. Follow Quinn and her crimefighting team as they investigate murders in the Traverse City homeless encampment known as the Pines and chase the wrongdoers at a new peregrine falcon repopulation center owned by an Arab sheik at the tip of Old Mission Peninsula. Thanks for supporting my writing and enjoy The Lure!
Last Saturday, with the snow gone from seasonal roads, I got into places I hadn’t driven since December. Bumpy dirt roads, wetlands, spent milkweed pods, woodland streams, blue skies, and a new historic marker were there for picture-taking. The scenes weren’t spectacular, but it was great having the freedom to roam again.
