With this morning I notched another species for this project, 78 different types of birds. While it is not a goal of this project to find new species, it does make it a bit more fun. These two redhead duck couples were swimming in the Duluth harbor shortly after dawn this morning.
Nothing exotic about today’s bird, but given the weather we have had in northern Minnesota, it is nice to finally have a day where the sun shined, and the temperature approached 60F. Another sign of Spring is that our local goldfinches are finally gold! Winter is finally history except for a bit of snow in the deep woods underneath thick groves of pines.
Well … maybe not French Kissing, but definitely some tongue! On a foggy day in northern Minnesota I actually had some neat bird photography opportunities. First this yellow-shafted flicker landed near me, and then these two red-breasted mergansers were so intent on swimming upstream in the fast water, they ignored me!
Yellow-Shafted Flicker
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Red-Breasted Merganser
