Hockey association benefit set Saturday
19.01.10
Items include a Pandora Bracelet, donated by Wolverine Auto; car care products from NAPA; patio
beverage cooler from Ace Hardware; first aid kit from Huron Medical Center; GPS from Huron Anesthesia Services; kid’s picnic table from Schafer & Murawski family; hockey sticks and apparel from Dr. David Fucinari family;
walleye fishing charter from Lake Huron OB/GYN; two rounds of golf and one hour ice time from the Bay County Civic Arena; St. Louis
Blues jerseys from the Huron County Hockey Association; Detroit
Red Wings jersey from McManaman Orthopedics; clock, thermometer and mugs from North Star Bank; Huron County puzzles from Rhonda and Rich
Cook; a 1988 Olympic coin from Bay Port State Bank; trouble light from A-1 Truck; halogen light with stand from Marty and Nanette Hembrough; Ducks Unlimited print from Upper Thumb Area Ducks Unlimited; camping chairs from Signature Bank; two Budweiser mirrors from Smith Distributing; T-shirts from Jason Maikrzek EventLink; welcome stone from
Source: Huron Daily Tribune
Wayne's World: Bird-watching in winter can be really cool
24.01.10
At 4:30 p.m. the sun paled. Cool winds blew. Heaving its icy shoulders, the Hudson River tide pushed an avalanche of topsy-turvy rubble — like moaning shards of mammoth broken porcelain plates and huge frosted looking-glass panes — down toward the Atlantic.
Many hundreds of birds — gulls, cormorants, ducks, geese and even crows — rose from the cracked ice floes looking like "a cloud of mosquitoes," said one bird-watcher at Newburgh Pier.
When the flocks swarmed back to the ice, a dark brown bald eagle — a youngster — looked them over for the frangible and sick, testing them with short dives. Nothing.
Still, once the eagle landed on a chunk of ice, crows tiptoed around the predator to see if it would stop in withdraw from scraps of food.
Watching keenly was a small tie of birders, angling telescopes to pick out rare, all-ashen-looking gulls from the far North — such as the smaller Iceland and the large glaucous gulls — that consider the mid-Hudson sort out of Miami Beach in winter.
Source: Times Herald-Record