1. It has been a hard 24 hours. First and foremost, it you are a “Facebook Friend” of mine, ignore any and all requests until I indicate otherwise in this blog. Although I have two factor authentication, it would appear my account has been compromised.
2. I did a face plant and hurt myself while trail running yesterday afternoon. Long story short, I had a major heart event which landed me in the Emergency Room. I am okay but scared.
3. Given I was having trouble sleeping last night, at 3 am I discovered that the skies had finally cleared after constant rain since last Thursday and the Northern Lights numbers were good. I drove to Boulder Lake at 3:30 am and watched the Aurora Borealis. In some of the pics you can see the Big Dipper, and others have some of the Milky Way.
4. When I was finished watching the Northern Lights at 5:00 am I headed to Sax-Zim Bog … long before sunrise which was essentially 7:00 am this morning. I had some good birding which I will blog about tomorrow, but the star of the night were the Northern Lights and a Coyote which walked to within a few feet of my car loooong before sunrise, obviously blinded by my car’s headlights. I have never watched a Coyote from only a few feet away.

Northern Lights at Boulder Lake (last night)

Wile E. Coyote

I am amazed I even managed to get this photograph to work. It was 45 minutes before sunrise and I had to use every trick in the book to take a picture in the dark, and pray the coyote would pause for a few moments.