Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: gull lake

This barn and shed are on the grounds of the Gilmore Car Museum , north of Gull Lake and west of Hickory Corners, Michigan. In my memory the farm was more farm than museum, and (as you can see) they're still farming the land which isn't part of the exhibit space.

As long as I remember the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary's hosted an ever-changing handful of injured raptors. Most have some sort of wing damage and all are unable to live in the wild. At Kellogg they live in large cages which have been set up around one of the ponds. The current set includes several owls, a bald eagle, and two Red-Tailed Hawks. The birds are cared for by the staff, and are definitely on display. Evidently some are used as teaching aids in presentations, though I don't recall ever seeing such use. The injured birds arrive by a variety of methods. Evidently everyone half-way local who cares for injured wildlife is aware that the Sanctuary can and does have facilities to care for injured birds. Each bird's cage features a prominent sign explaining how it came to be a guest at the sanctuary, an estimate of its age, and other information. When I was a kid these broken birds fascinated me. Nowadays I'm just glad they're being cared for, and sad that they have to live in cages.

This is the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary, near Battle Creek. I've always thought of this view as the entrance to the sanctuary, though technically it's well past the gift/book shop which controls entry to the facility. I can remember that this view was quite different when I was a kid, but don't remember any details; I think this just proves I'm no longer young. Bet I can find a picture in my slides, or my dad's, though. If you check out the original size , you can see several birds nesting along the path... =================== I'd post some pictures of the recent snow--today's been absolutely gorgeous, and the whole week's been very pretty--except I've been taken by a really nasty cold and haven't wanted to do much of anything. The cats and I watched birds all day, but I was too wasted to set up the camera rig.