The Sax-Zim Bog Winter Bird Festival is going to be held Februa Hello: The Sax-Zim Bog Winter Bird Festival is going to be held February 18-20th, 2011 at the Meadowlands Community Center in Meadowlands, Minnesota. Meadowlands is basically the little town in heart of the Sax-Zim Bog.
To register for the festival you can go to the following: 1. SAX-ZIMBOG.COM 2. MOU site: http://moumn.org/sax-zim/ Speakers: Friday Night Paul Bannick Paul Bannick is a wildlife photographer specializing in the natural history of North America with a focus on birds and habitat. Coupling his love of the outdoors with his skill as a photographer, he creates images that foster the intimacy between viewer and subject, inspiring education and conservation.Paul's first book, The Owl and the Woodpecker, published by The Mountaineers Books in October of 2008, continues to be one of the best–selling bird books in North America, and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award for general non-fiction. The University of Washington’s Burke Museum is creating a traveling exhibit based on The Owl and the Woodpecker, which will begin touring North American cities in March of 2011. Saturday Night Mark "Sparky" Stensaas I consider myself a Naturalist Photographer who enjoys learning about my subjects as much as photographing them. My fascination with the natural world began in junior high school when I saw a strange bird in my New Hope, Minnesota front yard. Turns out it was a Northern Flicker and I became hooked on birds. Photography started soon after. After graduating from the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 1985 with a Biology/American Indian Studies degree, I worked at a string of naturalist jobs including at Minnesota's Gooseberry Falls State Park, Jay Cooke State Park and Hawk Ridge. I was also a ranger with the National Park Service at Grand Portage National Monument and a canoe guide in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Photography became a passion for me after the turn of the century. Since then I have traveled extensively across the U.S. shooting wildlife and national parks with my buddy Ryan Marshik. Ryan is also my partner in the photo book project called North Woods Journal. Our late fall trip to Yellowstone National Park is becoming an annual event. I use top-of-the-line Canon products but carry a minimal amount of gear in the field. Since going digital in 2004 the fun factor has increased 110 percent. I love experimenting! In 1998 I formed a publishing company with friend Rick Kollath. Kollath-Stensaas Publishing creates user-friendly, photo-laden field guides for the North Woods. Stone Ridge Press was created in 2004. http://www.kollathstensaas.com/ Sparky is also going to lead a Photography Workshop on Saturday with possibly Shawn Zierman. Sparky is a fixture of Sax-Zim Bog. Sparky founded and still heads up the Sax-Zim Bog Christmas Bird Count. Sparky is also starting up a fund raising drive through Bird Nation http://www.birdnation.org/ to raise money for some projects. Go to the website to learn more. Field Trips * Sax-Zim Bog * Aitkin County * Duluth Area * Friday night "Great Gray Owl Dusk Search" * We will have well known leaders leading the field trips YES we see a lot of good winter bird specialties. In the last 3 years of running the festival, participants have seen Northern Hawk Owls, winter finches and all other local residents. In Aitkin County the trips usually produce Sharp-tailed Grouse dancing on the snow covered fields! The Duluth trips normally produce Thayer's Gulls, Glaucous Gull and occasionally a Iceland Gull. Hope to see you there Mike Mike Hendrickson Duluth, Minnesota Website: http://webpages.charter.net/mmhendrickson/ Blog: http://colderbythelakebirding.blogspot.com/ ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
