Gallery
Wanted: your deer, fish, game and outdoors photos to share with viewers of Jackson County Outdoors.com. We hope to fill our galleries with your success stories over the coming hunting season and following year as you mushroom hunt, fish, discover beautiful scenes and enjoy the outdoors. Simply email your photos to news@theexponent.com along with your name, the names of anyone in the photos, a telephone contact number and any information pertinent to the story you are telling with the photo. You could also include a little information about the hunt or share cooking or foraging tips so others can learn from your success.
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Deer
Trophy hunter
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Trophy hunter
Cheryl Westbrook of Onsted stands next to just a few of the trophy bucks she has taken over the years. Photo by Steve Linenfelser.
From Around Jackson County
Vineyard Lake in October
Autumn splendor
A sweet drink
Little Stoney at sunset
So long, summer
Baby Turtles
Trying to Escape
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Vineyard Lake in October
Donald Cutts took this photo looking west from the Oakwood Beach side of Vineyard Lake at about 11:30 a.m. on Monday, October 26. "God paints beautiful pictures," said Cutts. -
Autumn splendor
Julie Hill of Clarklake took this as the sun was beginning to set on October 7. "Our little Maple tree, color provided by the changing season," she said. -
A sweet drink
A butterfly enjoyed the nectar from a flower last summer, which made for a pretty picture. We are looking form more outdoors photos for this website as well as the Exponent. Photo by Matt Schepeler -
Little Stoney at sunset
Kelley Keefe sent us this great sunset photo from Little Stoney Lake. -
So long, summer
These wildflowers were taken by a gravel road in Jackson County. Since the photo was taken a few weeks ago the temps have nosedived and the flowers, sadly, faded. -
Baby Turtles
These baby snappers were brought into the Exponent in Brooklyn. Olen Burch, in the photo, took 56 eggs from a dying turtle and buried them in his back yard in Brooklyn. “I made two nests, but think now for that many eggs I should have made three,” he said. -
Trying to Escape
One turtle decided to take a chance and explore the territory beyond him. Burch kept the turtles in a pizza box on his way to releasing them in a wetland area near Onsted.
Unusual sightings
Maple Spanworm Moth
Brooklyn walking stick
Eye in the sky
A blood moon
DNR: wolves are in the lower peninsula
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Maple Spanworm Moth
Bonnie Hiatt snapped this photo of a moth that looked very much like a leaf. Do any of our viewers know off hand what type of moth it is? Note: Thanks Tami Reed for identifying the moth for us. My guess was way off.... -
Brooklyn walking stick
A stare-down appears to be taking place between a walking stick and Garret Smith, whose legs are in the background. The Phasmatodea are an order of insects whose members are variously known as walking sticks (in the United States. The ordinal name is derived from the Ancient Greek φάσμα phasma, meaning an apparition or phantom, and refers to the resemblance of many species to sticks or leaves. Their natural camouflage makes them difficult to detect. Stick insects are often kept as pets, though it seems they wouldn't be very fun to cuddle with, and would only get underfoot one time. Walking sticks normally appear in the fall, along with woolly bear and falling leaves. Photo taken by Philip Smith -
Eye in the sky
This "eye in the sky" was taken by Deb Sautter during the recent lunar eclipse. -
A blood moon
This stunning photo of the lunar eclipse was submitted by Deb Sautter of Clarklake. -
DNR: wolves are in the lower peninsula
Wolves are believed to be in the lower peninsula. Have you seen anything unusual in or around your property? We want to see your pictures!