It's always wonderful seeing monarch butterfly caterpillars.
And the lovely red milkweed beetle.
Can you see the young common nighthawks?
Rick Bohn took this photo.
Cormorants
Kristy Young of Freeborn took this photo of double-crested cormorants on Freeborn Lake.
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North Dakota
Good friend Rick Bohn sent me these lovely photos.
A hackberry emperor
Photo by Jack Madsen of Mankato
The twin 9-year-old grandsons of John Nelson of Good Thunder took these three photos.
Baltimore oriole
Ruby-throated hummingbird.
Trumpeter swans with cygnets.
North Dakota in the rear view mirror
Not much chance of getting hit by a Falcon or a Thunderbird.
Traffic was so light, we were the traffic.
I love blanket flowers.
And loggerhead shrikes even if they are hunting and trespassing.
Baird's sparrow
From the prairie potholes of North Dakota
Photo by Rick Bohn
Gold in the feathers can make a person rich
Of an American goldfinch.
Orange you happy you are one of those rich people?
Chase Lake
That's me taking an unintended selfie in Nort Dakota.
Birders looking at pelicans. Last year, there were 17,000 pelican nests at Chase Lake.
Potholes & Prairie Birding Festival
Carrington, North Dakota
Photo by Rick Bohn
Photo by Rick Bohn
Western grebes.
Photo by Rick Bohn
What milkweed plants give me.
Monarch butterflies.
Everybody and every bunny.
Baby killdeer.
They come in two styles. Cute.
And cuter.
We tend to overlook the beauty in the commonplace. Shame on us. What a lovely bird the American robin is.
Sax-Zim Bog
All photos taken by Peter Trueblood.
Great gray owl
Snowy owl
Northern hawk owl
And again.
Gray jay.
Boreal chickadee.
And a boreal chickadee.
And three shots of a lovely pine grosbeak.
Fawning
I took this photo. Fawns have a great impact on me when I see one. I saw "Bambi" when I was a mere snot-nosed boy.
Bryce Gaudian sent this photo of true cowbirds.
A red-headed woodpecker and a scarlet tanager visited our feeders. Such happenings are the reason the word "wow" was coined.
Birds and mudbugs
Norm Emerson of St. James sent this photo of a common nighthawk.
Paul Godtland saw and photographed these.
Red knots
A magnolia warbler.
An eastern towhee. I still occasionally call it by its old name, the rufous-sided towhee. I hope it doesn't mind.
And a crayfish, crawdad, crawfish or mudbug.
An important food in Louisiana. Not in Minnesota. We have lutefisk.
A chipping white-throated cedar thrasher.
Joyce Street of Hesper, Iowa, sent these two photos.
A chipping sparrow.
And a white-throated sparrow.
And Bob Guenther of Alden took these two.
A cedar waxwing.
And a brown thrasher.
Baby cardinals
Neil and Barb Lang sent these photos of nestling cardinals.
Joyce Street snapped a photo of a white-lined sphinx moth.
Working on the chain gang
Gus Davis sent these photos of his method of discouraging barn swallows from building nests in undesirable places.
