Day 110: Would You Rather be a Duck?

Year 1

Would you like to swing on a star,
carry moonbeams home in a jar?

Or would you rather be a duck?

With my apologies to Bing Crosby (YouTube Link) and others for the slight change to the lyrics, I believe the answer to the question is “no”! I took these photos this morning at the mouth of the Lester River on Lake Superior. The wind was gusting to almost 40 mph, and these redheads really did not want to migrate one foot farther north. Their landing spot was about 50 yards past the end of the pack ice which has this end of Lake Superior (Duluth) slammed in with ice even on May 12th.

110-Birds-365-Surfing-Redheads-2 110-Birds-365-Surfing-Redheads-1 110-Birds-365-Surfing-Redheads-3
110-Birds-365-Surfing-Redheads-4110-Birds-365-Surfing-Redheads-5

Day 109: Redhead Duck Photos

Year 1

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.

109-Birds-365-Redheads

Day 108: Spring Finally Arrives?? Goldfinch

Year 1

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.

108-Birds-365-Goldfinch