Snow Storm Birding! (videos)

Duluth is also known at the Arctic Riviera. Thus, when a snow storm hit two hours before dawn, it was a HUGE invitation for me to get outside with my camera. Today’s wind is out of the northeast which mean big waves as they coming rolling down hundreds of miles of open water of Lake Superior. Thus, rather than being a “stay inside” type of day, I’ve had a great time outdoors. I will admit to having gotten wet due to the sloppy snow, but birding was easy. The snow concentrated birds in prime birding locations. However, taking photographs was a challenge! 🙂

Blue Morph Snow Goose Family

Snow Bunting

Red-Bellied Woodpecker

Snow Geese in the Snow Videos

Wave Videos from Canal Park: The first video was taken from the 2nd floor of the Duluth Marine Museum. For the second video I had moved outside, but unlike folks seen in my first video, I am well back of the Lakewalk. The waves were throwing up on shore 20 to 30 pound rocks. The tourists did not realize they were in danger … not from the waves but thrown rocks. I warned a few folks before I went back to my car.

And a photograph of our house from an hour before sunrise this morning, just as the storm was really getting started in the Duluth area.

5 thoughts on “Snow Storm Birding! (videos)

    1. Perhaps hundreds of miles is an over exageration, but the far northern Ontario shore up by Marathon would be 250+ miles from Duluth by water. A strong NE wind comes down the lake in that direction.

  1. The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
    Of the big lake they called ‘gitche gumee’
    The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
    When the skies of November turn gloomy
    With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
    Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
    That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed
    When the gales of November came early

    1. The Fitz sunk about ten miles offshore at the Crisp Point … the lighthouse where I served as keeper last week. Two days after Molly and I left Crisp Point, they had 70 mph winds and 25 to 30 foot waves! Those would make the waves I saw this morning look puny!

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