Great Blue Heron on Wildwing Lake.
Between 39 to 52 inches long with a wingspan of around 5 feet 10 inches. A common, large mainly grayish heron with a pale or yellowish colored bill. It is often mistaken for a Sandhill Crane but flies with its neck folded and not extended like the Sandhill Crane. In southern Florida an all-white form, the "Great White Heron", differs from the Great Egret in that they are larger with greenish-yellow legs rather than the black legs of the Great Blue Heron.
Their habitat includes lakes, ponds, rivers and marshes.
They breed locally from coastal Alaska, south-central Canada and Nova Scotia south to Mexico and the West Indies. Winters as far north as southern Alaska, central United States and southern New England. Also in the Galapagos Islands.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
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Sandhill Crane.
Between 34 to 48 inches in length with a wingspan of nearly 7 feet. They are very tall with a long neck and long legs. Largely gray with a red forehead. Juveniles browner with no red on head. Plumage often appears a rusty color because of iron stains from water of ponds or marshes.
They inhabit large freshwater marshes, prairie ponds and marshy tundra. They are also on prairies and grain fields during migration and in winter.
They range from Siberia and Alaska east across arctic Canada to the Hudson Bay and south to western Ontario. There are isolated populations in the Rocky Mountians, northern prairies, and the Great Lakes region along with in Mississippi, Georgia and Florida. They winter in California's Central Valley and across the southern states from Arizona to Florida. They can also be found in Cuba.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
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American Tree Sparrow.
Between 5 1/2 to 6 1/2 inches long, the American Tree Sparrow has a gray head with a rufous crown and ear stripe. It's streaked brown above with 2 prominent wing bags and a plain gray below with a dark spot in the center of the breast. They are similar to a Field Sparrow but larger and without a white eye ring or pink bill.
They inhabit arctic willow and birch thickets; fields, weedy woodland edges and roadside thickets in winter.
They range from Alaska east throughout northern Canada and south to northern British Columbia east to Newfoundland. They winter south to California and the Carolinas.
Lake Erie Metropark, Monroe County, Michigan.
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An installation with slowly changing light, based on an old folk tale from the Balkans about dragons who protect villagers from demons. It shows two dragons, one blue and one red, symbolizing opposing forces - good and evil. To achieve harmony, the forces must collide, leading to rebirth. Note that the dragons switch sides after the collision, representing the unity between them.
It is one of the temporary light installations during the event "Lights in Alingsås 2024" – the theme of the year is "The Magical World of Mythology". Work shop heads for this installation: Jasmina Memic and Srdja Hrisafovic, based in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Alingsås Municipality organises the event Lights in Alingsås every autumn. Since 2000 the municipality has worked with the PLDA (Professional Lighting Designers´ Association). Every year in september/october leading international lighting come to Alingsås to hold a week´s workshop with participants from all over the world. Together they light a number of buildings and locations around the town centre. Around 70,000 people come every year to see the designs during the month-long event.
www.lightsinalingsas.se/en (website in English and Swedish)
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