Tag Archives: MN North: Lester River

A 360 Degree Sunrise!

Year 4

While the wife is away (college reunion), the husband did play (in the storm!) My video of Friday’s fury has been watched over 125,000 times (and still Increasing)!

In case you missed my coverage, the video which has gone viral is the last “storm video” on my  Snow Storm Birding Blog Post (bottom of linked page).

Here is this morning’s 360 degree sunrise. The first view is taken looking out over Lake Superior (much calmer this Sunday morning). Twelve minutes later, I turned around and captured the reflected dawn light in the UMD Limnology Lab windows.

If you’re interested, here are the stats about my video posted early this Sunday morning by Destination Duluth.

24 Hours in the Northland: Boats, Birds, Fish!

Year 4, ,

Yesterday I could not buy a decent bird photograph. Although the Meadowlarks were back,  neither them or any other bird species would strike a decent pose for a photo. Thankfully I had a fallback … my first freighter image of this shipping season, The Michipicoten. This ore boat is a classic ship having been built in 1952 … making her four years more a classic than yours truly! I tend to be very picky about which ships I photograph, and the combination of the Duluth Shipping News Schedule and a real time marine app allows me to insure I am at the right place at the right time!

The Michipicoten

The ship photograph must have changed my luck, because over the next 24 hours birds seemed to want their photograph taken, and then to top it off … the steelhead run started which obviously had to be captured on camera. (native rainbow trout which spawn in Lake Superior rivers).

Failed! A Steelhead trying to jump a Lester River cascade.

Wisconsin Wetland Photographs

Ring-Necked Ducks

Sandhill Cranes et al

American Kestrel

A Distant Meadowlark

Stuffed! (A very full Bald Eagle which let me get amazing close and never flushed)

Lester River Kayak Race 2017 (video)

Year 4

Had fun watching the annual Lester River Kayak Race today. The organizers have to wait till the ice overhangs are off the river (safety), and the flow is properly fast. At that point the decision is made to race! This pool plunge is about a one mile hike from my home!

In the video … one kayaker goes forward, and one goes backward!

And some more photographs. The Lester River is a wilderness river which screams down to Lake Superior on the NE edge of Duluth, Minnesota.