Tag Archives: MN North: Forest Hill Cemetery

Day 290: Beauty Before the Storm

November 10, 2014Year 1MN North: Amity, MN North: Brighton Beach, MN North: Forest Hill Cemeteryrichardhoeg@gmail.com

Our first major winter storm is bearing down on the Northland. It appears the birds must know this fact, and were busy foraging and eating all day long. Here are a series of photos from sunrise to just before sunset.

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20 minutes before sunrise at Brighton Beach (Canada Geese)

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Look at me! I can walk on water! (Mallards)

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Food! (Blue Jay)

Day 284: Saying Goodbye to Bird Friends

November 3, 2014Year 1MN North: Forest Hill Cemeteryrichardhoeg@gmail.com

I visited my friends, the hooded merganser couple, twice this morning. Early this morning it was cloudy, and later the sun broke through! Why the “goodbye”? Ice has now almost covered one of the ponds, and my friends … the ducks … will need to fly south fast! It was nice to finally get some sun to photograph the “hoodies”!