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24 Hours of Lake Superior Magic!

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The  past week has been non stop drizzle, rain, wind and clouds, but yesterday that changed as the sun reappeared, and thus started 24 hours of magic! I live 600 yards above Lake Superior across from a wilderness creek which roars down to the big lake. The combination of Lake Superior, and the fall bird migration is an outdoor photographer’s dream.  The past 24 hours were a dream!

Pre-Dawn at Canal Park … the Buffalo enters the Duluth Harbor
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Sunrise approaches as a Saltie waits anchored out on the lake
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A Bald Eagle takes flight while migrating near McQuade Harbor
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Horned Locks migrate through out area, down from the sub-Arctic
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A Snowy Owl at dusk decides to winter in warm Duluth … a tundra arrival
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The Northern Lights set the sky on fire at Boulder Lake
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Long-Tailed Ducks!

Year 2

Yesterday morning I went out biking in the drizzle / fog. It made for a nice cool ride, but not great photographic conditions. Near McQuade Harbor I noticed some ducks that looked unusual out on Lake Superior. Getting off my bicycle for a closer inspection, I realized the birds were Long-Tailed Ducks (Cornell Ornithology Link)! Normally these ducks should be up in the northern reaches of Hudson Bay, but today this flock was 200 yards off shore on Lake Superior!

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