Back in 2012 we had a similar flood, and I lost ten yards at the end of my driveway. Thankfully my house is way elevated above my garage and driveway. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the rains have come to the Duluth area. This morning I walked over to The Deeps (location of today’s images) which is only 200 yards from my yard. This basic location is also where my owls, including FuzzBall, chose to live last winter. Hiking the trail on my side of the creek is now becoming a dangerous experience.

Videos: Amity Creek at the Deeps … Waaay out of its Banks

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And a perspective from the Gazebo side of Amity Creek

Images of The Amity Creek Flood

I did NOT walk across this foot bridge. I used 7 Bridges Road to walk well upstream to use another bridge that was still 1 to 2 feet above the creek … crossed Amity … and then hiked down next to the stream.

Did I mention I was crazy enough to go out yesterday during the heavy rains to go birding? The Park Point Recreation Area was full of birds. The strong NE winds off the lake were pushing the bird migration, and the Park Point being at the western end of Lake Superior experienced a fallout of pushed birds … including this Peregrine Falcon which was hunting song birds.

Finally all the storms coming in off the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico had pushed this “pink visitor” to the Duluth Harbor!

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