Migrations

Birding on the North Shore

I joined family for a walk on the wilder side of birding. An event held up in Duluth, Minnesota on the shore of Lake Superior for the spring migrations.

No One Home 8x10

As the adults birds race back for nesting rights, it was particularly exciting since we had our own Naturalist pointing out the numerous species in flight. She also taught us how to identify by silhouette and had lots of tips.



I was surrounded by serious birders with binoc's and photo lenses the size of telescopes with focus ranges worthy of an eagle's eye.




I could only captured a few choice scenes of my own to paint in tribute to a fine weekend of sharing god's creatures path home.

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I seem to have migrated myself with my painting choices dealing with much softer and subtler palette of colors.


We were out so early in the morning it really was a different light.

As they say the early bird catches the worm or the Early birder catches the photos. Here's a few of my favorite bird poses captured by another family member.


Yellowed Headed Black Bird, Flicker and a Barred Owl.












We also saw a golden eagle, numerous hawks, a red breasted loon and song birds.

As of April 30, 2019

If you're up that way be sure to check out Hawk's Ridge the sponsor of our program. They were counting the raptor migrations since March and getting record numbers of birds returning.