Tag: Bird Watching
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Day Eight Travel to Alaska Spring 2025
We are 300 miles closer to Alaska. We also had 3 fun stops and one oil change stop. Montana has some great interstate rest areas which include trails. I enjoyed a nice stroll on the Copperway Regional Trail, which had views of the distant 585-foot copper smelting stack (higher than the Washington Monument). It was…
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Day 7 Travel to Alaska Spring 2025
We drove 400 miles today. We wouldn’t have made it so far if more attractions were open. Last night, most of the restaurants and attractions in Medora, ND, were closed until the summer season. Our fun nature stops in Montana today were closed (one opened May 1, the other late April). Even one of the…
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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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