Yesterday I guided around fourteen birdwatchers & naturalists from the Audubon Center of the North Woods (Sandstone, MN). We had an amazing time!
Our day started out arriving in the bog about 15 minutes to the early-morning twilight coming around; and within moments of heading out of the vans to trek through the woods, the air was filled with birdsong! One of the grandest highlights from yesterday was coming across a moose! We ended the day by stopping at Thompson Hill, to do a little bit of hawkwatching. The mid-afternoon hours proved to be slightly slow, but upon arriving we witnessed a rush of Red-tailed Hawks just ripping low, overhead. It was awesome! The checklist below contains the birds seen on yesterday's trip. Bold words are new bog birds to me (for the year). Below the checklist are pictures from yesterday's trip. Enjoy the photos! Canada Goose WOOD DUCK Mallard RING-NECKED DUCK Common Merganser Bald Eagle Northern Harrier (two Gray Ghosts - aka adult males) Sharp-shinned Hawk (1 migrating overhead) Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel RING-BILLED GULL (migrating north) Hairy Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Northern Shrike Blue Jay Black-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven Black-capped Chickadee Brown Creeper WINTER WREN GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET American Robin AMERICAN TREE SPARROW SONG SPARROW Dark-eyed Junco RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD COMMON GRACKLE White-winged Crossbill Sunrise, deep in the bog http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/142334010 American Robin, taking a break from migration http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/142334001 Bald Eagle http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/142334002 Black-backed Woodpecker (female) http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/142334003 Northern Harrier (gray ghost) http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/142334004 http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/142334005 Beaver Dam, along Stone Lake http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/142334006 Moose http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/142334009 Leatherleaf, in front of Labrador Tea http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/142334007 Labrador Tea http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/image/142334008 Good birding, Erik Bruhnke Duluth, MN -- *NATURALLY AVIAN* - Guided Birdwatching Trips and Bird photography www.pbase.com/birdfedr www.naturallyavian.blogspot.com [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
