We've just returned form a few days in the Duluth/Two Harbors area. On Sunday we caught up with friends in the Kim Eckert tour; our apologies and thanks go out to Kim and his group for tolerating our intrusion and sharing their experience with us. We continued birding for two more days with Don Harrington.
Highlights were: a learning experience, centered around what we hoped was an Arctic, or at least Pacific, loon; in the end, it was a juvenile c. loon, which was determined by examining some hard-won photos black-throated blue warbler (female) both kinglets Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers sparrows: fox, white-crowned, white-throated (MANY) Brown Creepers Winter Wren Cackling Geese Black Duck Am. Golden Plover Sanderlings Thayer's Gull, juvenile Lapland Longspur Am. Pipit Hawk Ridge raptors, especially N. Goshawks (At Park Point, a red fox crossed our path above the dunes, looking very healthy and well-fed. presumably, he's enjoying migration in a more visceral way.) Linda and Rob Whyte
