Snowy Owl Children’s Book Rollout | Birding Talks

Background

Snowy’s Search for Color Book Rollout! / Birding Seminars

  • Children’s Book Reading (age focus: 4 to 10 years old)
  • Winter Birding Talks (owls & more)
  • Saturday, Oct. 26th from 10 am to 12 pm
  • Duluth, Lester-Amity Chalet
  • Free Admission! (no registration required)

Details: Family event on 7 Bridges Road in Duluth, just below Hawk Ridge. Rich Hoeg, a Sax-Zim Bog volunteer naturalist, and local children’s book author will read his latest book, Snowy`s Search for Color. He will also give two talks on winter birding in NE Minnesota.

Schedule (attend any or all of the readings / talks)

10:00 Doors Open

10:15 Children’s Book Reading: Snowy’s Search for Color

10:30 Talk: How to Find Snowy Owls in Duluth / Superior this winter

10:45 Children’s Book Reading: Hey There Mr. Owl! (Susan Larson-Kidd)

11:00 Break

11:15  Talk: Winter Birding in NE Minnesota

11:45 Q and A

12:00 Event Ends … take a family hike on the Lester-Amity Trails!

Rich’s books will be available for sale at $12 per copy. All net proceeds will be donated to the Friends of Sax-Zim Bog, including Rich’s book earnings.

Download a free PDF version of Snowy’s Search for Color

Directions to Lester-Amity Chalet

  • Lester-Amity Chalet
  • 2940 Seven Bridges Rd (1.3 miles above Superior St.)
  • Duluth 55804
  • Note: 7 Bridges Road is also signed as both Skyline Parkway and Occidental Blvd at its start / intersection with Superior Street (near 60th Avenue East).

Snowy’s Search for Color … Story Overview: (after cover image)

Follow the adventures of a young Snowy Owl as it flies south from its home on the Arctic Ocean in search of color! The owl meets up with other owls, red foxes, and even Smokey the Bear! It is a magical journey.

Contact Rich Hoeg?

  • RichardHoeg (at) Gmail.Com

Bird Your Local Cemetery!

Year 6,

Fall is an excellent time to go birding in your local cemetery. If that burial ground has a pond, so much the better. Migrating birds often make use these areas, and become somewhat acclimatized to cars. Use your vehicle as a roving blind, and do no get out of  the car. One is often able to get much closer than normal to wild birds.

Hooded Merganser Flock at Forest Hill Cemetery

Black-Capped Chickadee (two different birds … apparently a favorite branch for cracking open seeds … once I figured that out I just waited till a chickadee flew into position for a photograph)

7 “Wet” Bridges Road & Waterfall (video)

Year 6

Yesterday was a foggy wet day. In fact it has been wet, windy and foggy for some time. When God gives you apples, make applesauce! No birds are migrating in this junky weather, and the low light is generally not a photographer’s dream. However, the combination of water and fall colors in beautiful.

My house is just below the final bridge on 7 Bridges Road. Amity Creek roars down to Lake Superior over 500 feet in this sequence of images. Birds tagged on my blog with the word “Amity” were taken in this area near my home. The final images of the waterfall and footbridge are 250 yards from my driveway. In the winter my cross-country ski workouts end by skiing across the footbridge (built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930’s).

From the waterfall Amity Creek still descends 100 feet further to Lake Superior. Seven Bridges Road was built in the very early 1900’s. Until you get down below Bridge #7 there is no development on the road … just the Boreal Forest and the 7 English Stone Arch Bridges.

We will now work our way downstream along 7 Bridges Road …

Looking upstream into the fog from Bridge #1

Bridge #1

Bridge #2

Bridge #3

Bridge #4

Bridge #5

Bridge #6

Bridge #7 (looking upstream from the footbridge)

The Deeps Waterfall (new footbridge!)

The Waterfall at the Deeps (video link)