 Sunrise, deep in the bog |
 American Robin, taking a little breather, from a long night of migrating northward! |
 Bald Eagle |
 Black-backed Woodpecker |
 Northern Harrier |
 Northern Harrier |
 Beaver damn, along the edge of Stone Lake |
 Moose!! |
 Leatherleaf in front of Labrador Tea |
 Labrador Tea |
 Wilson's Snipe, winnowing! |
 Brewer's Blackbird - look at that gorgeous sheen! |
 Brewer's Blackbird |
 American Kestrel pair |
 Ring-necked Duck |
 Belted Kingfisher |
 Adult female Northern Harrier |
 Tree Swallow and Barn Swallow |
 Tree Swallows at a nest box |
 Blue Jay |
 Lincoln's Sparrow |
 Chipping Sparrow |
 Chipping Sparrow, looking cute for the camera |
 Magnolia Warbler |
 Mourning Warbler, preparing for a double boreal dismount, hoping to stick the landing. |
 Mourning Warbler |
 Mourning Warbler |
 Female Northern Flicker at the cavity |
 Home Sweet Home |
 Red Squirrel |
 Swamp Sparrow |
 Tree Swallow |
 Spider web in the bog |
 Sunrise in the bog |
 Great Gray Owl |
 Connecticut Warbler! |
 Connecticut Warbler! |
 Black-and-white Warbler |
 Blackburnian Warbler |
 Broad-winged Hawk (juvenile) keeping watch |
 Adult Broad-winged Hawk |
 Cedar Waxwing |
 Chipping Sparrow |
 Cape May Warbler |
 Chestnut-sided Warbler |
 Chestnut-sided Warbler |
 Pair of Eastern Bluebirds |
 Great Gray Owl in the evening |
 Lincoln's Sparrow |
 Mourning Warbler |
 Butterbutt! (Yellow-rumped Warbler |
 Nashville Warbler |
 My Northern Saw-whet Owl photo, hanging up in the Alesche's Lodging near Sax-Zim! |
 Olive-sided Flycatcher taking off! |
 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, a little blurred, but showing off those field marks! |
 Sandhill Crane |
 Swamp Sparow |
 Trumpeter Swan |
 Wilson's Snipe in non-winnowing formation |
 Wilson's Snipe Winnowing! Note the open outer tail feathers, which make the sound |
 Wilson's Snipe against the moon |
 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
 Marsh Cinquefoil |
 Snowshoe Hare |
 Viceroy and White Admiral |
 Butterfly |
 Butterfly head-on |
 Butterfly from the side |
 Butterfly. Can you see him? |
 Butterfly |
 Calla lily |
 Calla lily |
 Calla lily |
 Cottongrass |
 Cottongrass |
 Four-spotted Skimmer |
 Flax |
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 Little fox, trotting around the open field looking for rodents |
 Iris |
 Labrador Tea |
 Black-billed Magpie, keeping cool in the shade |
 Monarchs |
 Polyphemus Moth |
 Moth |
 Moth |
 Moth |
 Mourning Cloak |
 Porcupine |
 Porcupine |
 Porcupine |
 Rushes are round |
 Skunk Cabbage |
 Sunset in Sax-Zim Bog |
 My birding group for the day! We had so much fun! |
 Enjoying the birds |
 Watching the porcupine that afternoon |
 American Redstart (male) |
 Blackburnian Warbler (male) |
 Cape May Warbler (male) |
 Dickcissel |
 Hairy Woodpecker |
 Nashville Warbler fledgling begging for food! |
 Nashville Warbler taking it easy |
 Purple Finch (male) |
 Fledgling Song Sparrow |
 Wilson's Snipe winnowing (note the outermost tail feathers) |
 Wilson's Snipe |
 Bog Habitat |
 Garter Snakes |
 Spotted Coralroot |
 Brewer's Blackbird female (left) and Red-winged Blackbird male (right) |
 Dickcissel |
 Dickcissel |
 Eastern Bluebird (male) |
 Purple Finches! |
 Northern Pearly Eyes (group on left), Red Admiral (back right), White Admiral (front right) |
 Tiger Swallowtail and bee |
 Polyphemus Moth |
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 This mass of water is usually about 2-3 feet wide at the most |
 Iris in the bog |
 Painted Turtle that I rescued from the Bagley Pond parkinglot |
 Tiger Swallowtail |
 Pre-sunrise. Photo taken at 4:24am |
 After an hour of listening for those little, elusive Yellow Rail |
 Sunrise, at 4:43am |
 Bobolink male |
 Train hauling iron ore pellets |
 Great Gray Owl |
 Great Gray Owl about to dive off! |
 Great Gray Owl taking flight |
 Great Gray Owl... big, deep wingbeats |
 Great Gray Owl, on its way into the woods |
 Wilson's Snipe... letting all of the other creatures know he's here, and ready to do some winnowing |
 Lincoln's Sparrow |
 Brewer's Blackbird |
 Black-billed Cuckoo |
 Black-backed Woodpecker |
 Broad-winged Hawk (juvenile) |
 Cliff Swallow |
 Dark-eyed Junco |
 Northern Pearly Eye |
 Purple Finch (female) |
 butterflies |
 fritillaries |
 The birding group, after an extra fun day of birding |
 Baltimore Oriole |
 Black-billed Cuckoo |
 Bobolink (male) |
 Brewer's Blackbird |
 Broad-winged Hawk |
 Dickcissel |
 Family of Sandhill Cranes |
 Le Conte's Sparrow was singing in this field |
 Ferocious beast of the bog :) |
 Eastern Kingbird |
 Le Conte's Sparrow |
 Gray Ghost (adult male Northern Harrier) |
 Gray Ghost (adult male Northern Harrier) |
 Gray Ghost (adult male Northern Harrier) |
 Savannah Sparrow - cute and mean stare |
 Painted Turtle |
 Swallows |
 American Goldfinch |
 Baltimore Oriole |
 Black-and-white Warbler |
 Cedar Waxwing |
 Juvenile Common Yellowthroat |
 Palm Warbler |
 Sedge Wren |
 Dew on the Dogwood |
 Spiderweb Dew |
 Sunrise in the bog |
 Dew Drops |
 Bobolinks |
 Clay-colored Sparrows! Can you find all four? |
 Clay-colored Sparrow bouncing around |
 Chesnut-sided Warbler |
 Chestnut-sided Warbler |
 Eastern Phoebe |
 Mourning Doves (immature on left, adult on right) |
 After a day of guiding & birding with my good friends from Ohio, Bob & Paula |
 Paula and Bob |
 Tree Swallows |
 Dragonfly |
 Beautiful red dragonfly |
 Fritillary |
 Sunflower - I'm thinking a little bird planted this one! |
 White Admiral |