Monthly Archives: August 2014

Day 202: Brighton Beach Morning

August 13, 2014Year 1MN North: Brighton Beachrichardhoeg@gmail.com

It’s grand to have the sunrise finally at a more reasonable hour (6 am). Thus, this morning I headed down to Lake Superior (Brighton Beach) about 5:30 to enjoy the dawn’s early light, and the peacefulness of a northern Minnesota morning. Apparently one line herring gull have the same idea as me! Once there was a little more light, the sandpipers enjoyed playing in the waves!

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Superior Sunrise

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Least Sandpipers

Day 201: Dueling Downys

August 11, 2014Year 1MN North: Amityrichardhoeg@gmail.com

Being in the right place at the right time is how one gets neat photos. If you don’t have your camera with you, photos will always be missed. It was fun to capture these dueling downy woodpeckers in my local forest. Apparently all children fight!

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Dueling Downy Woodpeckers

Day 200: Madam Merlin

August 10, 2014Year 1Bike Toursrichardhoeg@gmail.com

Early in the morning while biking the 70 miles from Ely to Beaver Bay on the North Shore of Lake Superior, I heard a hawk screaming off to the side of the road. I got off my bicycle and waded into the forest. My reward was to find this merlin (kind of falcon) enjoying its breakfast. My payment was incurring a huge number of mosquito bits in the search for this picture!

I’ve also included a photograph I took 45 minutes after sunrise of the Kawishiwi River. Hopefully you will begin to understand my love of northern Minnesota! You’ll note that my final photo of the hawk finally had blue skies. The weather was clearing, but the bugs drove me away from lingering to take any more pictures!

My thanks to Owen Strickland, one this blog’s readers who helped me with the identification.