January 31, 2018

Birding the Bog -- Day 2

Our second day in the Sax Zim Bog was another amazing day. We started early, hoping to catch a glimpse of Sharp-tailed Grouse as they moved off of their lek. The big birds of open plains like Sharp-tailed Grouse and Greater Prairie-chickens find areas called leks to perform elaborate courtship displays from.

January 24, 2018

Birding the Bog -- Day 1

No offense to Ohio, which gets plenty cold, but Minnesota is a seriously cold State. As a result, there are some seriously cool birds, which are often tough to see anywhere else. It wasn't hard to talk my younger brother Daniel into coming with me for a long weekend of birding in the Sax Zim Bog; it really only took a few pictures...

Great Gray Owl in the Sax Zim Bog

January 14, 2018

Braving the cold for winter birds

Okay, one of my New Year's Resolutions was to revive this blog. We'll see how it goes! This first post is a write-up of a Columbus Audubon trip I led up to the Cleveland Lakefront. Yes, people actually came.