Welcome to the height of migratory bird season, a fleeting time when, if youâre observant, you may spy a bright golden warbler in a tree or bush.
Mid-May is the heavy traveling season for such songbirds. Several species wear an array of yellow, brown, gray and black feathers â among other palettes â with equally colorful names, including Cape May warbler, Nashville warbler, chestnut-sided warbler and magnolia warbler. Not to forget songs and calls as varied as an orchestraâs instruments.
We enjoy this often-hidden spectacle for just a few weeks until theyâve all rushed northward to their summer breeding grounds.
âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.
MICHIGAN CITY â Mount Baldy has a voracious appetite. The dune that routinely swallows mature trees is now gobbling up the exit to the parking lot.
The sand piled up on the exit road could be moved with a dump truck and a backhoe, but that would be a losing battle, Indiana Dunes National Park spokesman Bruce Rowe said. Instead, park officials are blocking off that road and turning the parking lot into a two-way lot.
On Thursday, signs marking the parking lot as a one-way route remained in place, but the exit was blocked off.
A sign along the north side of the exit road is nearly buried by the dune, with just the tops of the fence posts sticking out to mark the edge of the road. In one spot, only about 6 feet of pavement remain uncovered. The fence will be moved to the grassy area separating the dune and the rest of the parking lot, Rowe said.
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MICHIGAN CITY â Mount Baldy has a voracious appetite. The dune that routinely swallows mature trees is now gobbling up the exit to the parking lot.
The sand piled up on the exit road could be moved with a dump truck and a backhoe, but that would be a losing battle, Indiana Dunes National Park spokesman Bruce Rowe said. Instead, park officials are blocking off that road and turning the parking lot into a two-way lot.
On Thursday, signs marking the parking lot as a one-way route remained in place, but the exit was blocked off.
A sign along the north side of the exit road is nearly buried by the dune, with just the tops of the fence posts sticking out to mark the edge of the road. In one spot, only about 6 feet of pavement remain uncovered. The fence will be moved to the grassy area separating the dune and the rest of the parking lot, Rowe said.