Category: Birds
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Day Six Travel to Alaska Spring 2025
While we traveled over 300 miles towards Alaska, today was so much more. We saw Greater Prairie Chickens AND Sharp-tailed Grouse performing on a lek. We were so close! If you have a chance to check C’s Facebook, the videos are so cool as they include the sounds and dance moves. An excerpt of the…
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Day Five Bluestem Prairie Spring 2025
We took the day off today to prepare for our Blind Date tomorrow morning. After lounging around all morning, we drove out to Bluestem Prairie. It was warm and sunny today, and the snow wasn’t bad. My knee did pretty well on the 0.5 mile hike to and from the blind. I took photos in…
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Day Four Travel to Alaska Spring 2025
We drove north over 350 miles today, from Clear Lake, IA to Dilworth, MN. The roads were clear all day, but not long after entering Minnesota, there was snow throughout the landscape. Many of the ponds and lakes were frozen as well. In some of the open water, we saw our first swans of the…
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Day Three Travel to Alaska Spring 2025
We had a great morning walking around our friend’s land in Iowa. C pointed out where he has hunted in the past, and he put up 2 game cameras. We both looked for wildlife, seeing and hearing deer, and many different species of birds. Later we talked with our friends and helped cut (C) and…
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Coastal Alabama
My side of the family met in Alabama this January. We stayed near the beach in Gulf Shores for 4 days. One day we all took the ferry over to Dauphin Island for lunch and to enjoy the Aquarium there. After the rest of the family left, C and I spent a couple more days…
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Blind Date
I have been chuckling all day since adding “arrange Blind Date” on my to-do list. My proposed dates to reserve a Greater Prairie Chicken Viewing Blind in Minnesota were rejected late last night. Thus, the top priority today was reviewing open dates for the popular blinds at Bluestem Prairie and working one of these dates…
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Day of Rest
I love my weekly day of rest. I enjoy it so much that C suggested I take two days “off off” most weeks now that I am retired. That intriguing idea hasn’t been coming together yet. Six days each week I exercise; plan, prep, and eat healthy food, clean house, and work on my task…
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Happy Birds
I woke up to dozens of birds feeding in the trees this morning. There is a rotating menagerie of robins and cedar waxwing in our Hawthorn tree. The fruit must be in prime condition today. Earlier this morning, one aggressive robin tried to claim the entire tree as his (or her?) own. Now birds fly…
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Lanigan, SK to Steinbach, MB (plus piece of Alaska)
Day Six: we have now traveled 2800 miles from Healy, Alaska and have 1600 to go. We will cross into the United States tomorrow at the Warroad, Minnesota border crossing. Our fun stop for the day was Portage Spillway Provincal Park, which surprised us by having thousands of birds. We saw a White Pelican, a…
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Fort Nelson, BC to Lanigan, SK – Halfway!
Days 4 and 5 brought us to 2300 miles completed with 2100 miles remaining. We saw 2 bison, 1 coyote, and lots of elk and deer. Over the past two days the terrain has changed from hilly forests to farmed plains. The photo below catches some of each during the transition zone. Fall colors are…
Me & C 