Like last year I am offering free birding field trips and I am Hello: Like last year I am offering free birding field trips and I am also going to offer a winter gull workshop.
On November 3-4th 2012 a 2 day field trip to Grand Marais, Minnesota. I will meet meet people in Duluth on November 3 early in the morning and we will bird our way north along Hwy. 61 to Grand Marais. We will stay over night in Grand Marais and bird our way back on November 4. I suspect we will end our trip around 3-4pm on Sunday in Duluth. Limit of birders on this trip will be 15 birders that way there will not be a long car caravan. On January 19 we will meet early in the morning in Duluth and spend the day in Sax-Zim Bog, Duluth and other areas looking for winter specialties and possibly a Boreal Owl! Limit of birders for this trip will be 15 birders. All these trips or workshops are for MOU members and non-members. On January 5th I am going to lead a one day gull trip or workshop. Many times I have met birders at some of the local gull spots in the Duluth / Superior Area who are puzzled or just plain frustrated on how to separate Thayer's Gulls from Herring Gulls or Iceland Gulls. Well this workshop / field trip will be focused on helping you out. We will spend all our time outdoors looking at gulls on this workshop. The gulls we will be focusing on will be Herring Gull, Ring-billed Gull ( if there are a few over wintering ), Thayer's Gull, Iceland Gull, Glaucous Gull and Great Black-backed Gull. I will help birders ID gull species, age of gulls and other field marks to help you get a greater understanding of wintering gulls in western Lake Superior.The cost is $25 per birder. The limit for this workshop will be 20 birders. We will meet at 9am in Duluth and the workshop will end at 4pm. If you are interested in any of these field trips please reply to me and I will add your name to the list. For the workshop there is no need to pay in advance just reserve a spot by replying to this post. I will send more detail information to all these field trip offerings to those who sign up. Yes I know it's 100 degrees plus in your area and its 90 degree plus up here but I thought a nice cold post about some late fall / winter field trips might cool you off mentally! Good Birding! Mike Mike Hendrickson Duluth, Minnesota MikeHendricksonGuiding.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
