Is there no limit? Not only do we apply our advanced observational skills to birding, we use them to enhance other aspects of our lives as well. This may top our best bird identification ever.
See this?
Alongside the trail…
of Lake Superior around Marquette:
Spent the day driving through Norman Rockwell’s head. Every barn looks like this:
What do you suppose the attached silos are for; storing stuff they’ve grown, or storing stuff they bought to feed to other stuff?
Through Madison, crossed the Mississippi into Iowa at Dubuque, down through Mount Vernon to the Army Corps of Engineers, Sandy Bottom campground, on Coralville Lake. Here’s our camp.
| Canada Goose |
| Mallard |
| Common Merganser |
| Double-crested Cormorant |
| Broad-winged Hawk |
| Killdeer |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| Rock Pigeon |
| Mourning Dove |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
| Red-headed Woodpecker |
| Northern Flicker |
| Blue Jay |
| American Crow |
| Black-capped Chickadee |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch |
| American Robin |
| European Starling |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Common Grackle |
| American Goldfinch |
Some curious black bear yearlings.
If you’re in Ely, Minnesota, you have to stop at the Stony Ridge Café for a burger. They have 50 different hamburgers on the menu.
It’s hard to find. It’s well off the main drag, and when you first get there, it doesn’t look like much. Just one little door.
But go through and out back, and it gets better.
Everything about the meal is homemade. It really was a very good burger.
