I saw this painted turtle along the trails at Riverbend Park in Rochester Hills.

This green frog started as a tadpole with legs when it was brought to my work. It was collected at Riverbend Park in Rochester Hills. The frog still has a part of it's tail left.

This little chick fell from it's nest in the calf barn. It is most likely a house sparrow because those have been the most frequently seen bird flying into the barn.

I found this snail crossing the parking lot of the museum. The snail shell was roughly the size of my thumb's figure nail.

I saw this green frog around the gazebo. It the frog had a small external eardrum and prominent dorsolateral.

I saw this toad hopping along the stone fence near the pond where the tadpoles were found.

I found these tadpole in one of the ponds on the property. They were about the size of a pea.

I saw this chipmunk in the tree. It had a piece of hay on his head. I first saw the chipmunk around the gazebo and then around this tree.

I saw this frog on the stones around the pond in the farmhouse backyard.

I saw one maybe two deer. The time was roughly early evening and it was near Paint Creek.

I heard one red-winged blackbird calling from a tree while I was walking

I saw 3 robins on the lawn.

I saw one mourning dove while I was walking on the trails at Riverbend Park in Shelby.

I saw a chickadee while I was walking in Riverbend Park in Shelby.

I saw 2 chickadees in this field.

I heard 3 blue jays calling at this location. I saw 2 jays fly west after I played the blue jay call on my Audubon app.

I believe the hawk in these pictures is a Copper's hawk. The light color chest feathers and dark gray to brown back feathers are what made me think it was a Cooper's hawk.

I believe the hawk in the two photos are a Cooper's hawk. The light brown coloring on the chest and the dark gray to brown feathers on the back made me think it was this type of hawk.

I saw 4 male cardinals at the bend in the stony creek. I first tried to call the first one I saw, but got no response. When I tried the encounter call, I think I had one of the other ones respond.

I heard a chickadee as I was walking to the farmhouse. The weather was cloudy but the sun was still out. The temperature was 30 degrees Fahrenheit.

I saw a bald eagle flying around near the wetland it had a nest in a conifer tree.

I heard the duck before I saw it. It was a male duck.

This blister beetle was climbing in the grass and I pretty lucky that it did not excrete it's chemical.

I found this insect in the inner leaves of this fuzzy plant.

I saw this male deer eating the vegetation around the hilltop shelter. This male was also growing antlers. The male's left antler appeared to be growing faster then the right.

A camper found this baby garter snake in the grass next to our shelter.

This cicada killer was in the process of moving this cicada to a tree where it could eat it.

We found this opossum track on a hike through the trails at Bloomer Park.

I saw this small frog near the mill pond behind the farmhouse.