Friday, February 1, 2013
Each week, Brighton Patch will feature videos from YouTube about Brighton.
There's lots of cool stuff going on in and around Brighton. Luckily, some of it is posted on YouTube. Each week, Brighton Patch will highlight a YouTube video posted about the Brighton area. This week's pick features Woody, Michigan's Official Groundhog, who makes her home in the Howell Nature Center. In the video posted by Livingstons Own, Woody picks the Ravens over the 49ers for Sunday's big game. Do you know of a YouTube video that highlights Brighton? Send the link to nicole.krawcke@patch.com and it could be featured next week.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
The bird spent a week at the Howell Nature Center recovering from a broken toe.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Over the course of its thirty-year history of wildlife rehabilitation, the Howell Nature Center has treated and released over 50,000 injured and orphaned animals and has grown to become the largest and most respected program of its kind in Michigan. Over the weekend, it added to its successful rehabilitation cases when volunteers released a Great Blue Heron back into the wild. A resident on the shores of Winans Lake had been observing a Great Blue Heron feeding at the shore for days when she realized that he had not moved from a particular spot. Sensing that the creature was in trouble, she contacted the Hamburg Fire Department for help. Firefighters waded through the thick, cold muck. When they reached the bird, they found that a snapping…
Thursday, February 2, 2012
More than 50 people attended the Groundhog Day Celebration at the Howell Nature Center.
Woody, Michigan's Official Groundhog, braved the brisk air early this morning at the Howell Nature Center to make her Groundhog Day prediction. Woody, unlike her chief rival Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania, admits when she errs – which has only been four times. According to Howell Nature Center Director Dana DeBenham, she has correctly made 9 out of 13 predictions. This year, Woody's prediction of an early spring was met with cheering from the more than 50 people gathered at the nature center. An early spring is predicted when Woody stays outside her den for 30 seconds or more. Woody came to live at the center when she was less than a year old after a local farmer shot her mother, DeBenham said, and has been making Groundhog Day …
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James Coller
10:33 am on Friday, February 3, 2012
I think spring has already arrived! more ›