There is something wrong with that title! After all, Horned Larks are a bird specie which prefer open fields and tundra.  However during the magic of migration, if you learn to “think like a bird”, one often finds birds in unusual places. Here in NE Minnesota, we live in the Boreal Forest, but lots of birds which prefer wide open spaces get “pushed by NW winds” to the shores of Lake Superior. These birds are not very adept at finding food in the forest, and therefore when they reach towns along the North Shore with open areas / fields … Eureka!

I found these Horned Larks this morning in the Two Harbors cemetery … some habitat that was some of the first open spaces that these birds had seen in quite a few miles! In about two weeks the Two Harbors golf course because a gem of a birding location. Once it closes to golfers for the season, its combination of ponds, tall grasses in the rough, and cover (adjacent to the Boreal Forest) makes for some great hikes.