The fall colors season is upon us. Be sure to get out and check out your favorite places around area to enjoy the changing of the season colors. It has been reported that it will be a great year and I have already noticed some pretty vivid changes taking place.
I also recommend you snap a photo or two of some fall colors when you are out and about and post them here on PDD.
Stop by the Perfect Duluth Day tent at Fallfest at Chester Bowl today and pick up a free sticker, 50 cent pop, candles, and other goodies. We’re the first booth on the right as you enter the park, conveniently located next to the biffies.
Saturday, 10-4
If you’re allergic to pretty underwater light on rocks, self-indulgent swim videos featuring the bottom of Lake Superior, or lots of footage of my neck, then do NOT watch this.
"Breaking Dawn" captured in Split Rock Lighthouse State Park
Duluth landscape photographer Ryan Tischer will be exhibiting new images at the Duluth Photography Institute, including photographs from Death Valley, Olympic National Park, and the Lake Superior region.
No jokes, toys, or mad scientists in this one; just non-fiction underwater footage taken near scenic Washburn WI.
Via Wildwoods:
Duluth Audubon Society meeting 9/8/11, Unitarian Church 7pm. Free.
“Learn How To Take Great Bird Photographs Without Leaving A Footprint” by Erik Bruhnke
Erik will cover bird photography basics, as well as photography etiquette. He wants to help everyone get the most out of the camera equipment they currently own. Erik will also discuss the importance of not leaving a footprint when photographing birds, animals and habitat.
Finished version composed largely of scenes already posted here, with new material for interested parties.
Posting this here strips the titles and credits off, so please click the Youtube icon to view on Youtube with titles and credits intact. Thank you~
Baby Bunnies at Wildwoods
We got seven baby cottontails from two different places in Proctor today.
While walking my dog I noticed pink marker tags on trees marking a route through the woods between the various trails in the Lester XC Ski area. They have been there since May. Does anyone know what they are for? SHT spur? A new ski trail? A snowshoe trail?
Photos by Hattie Peterson. (Click any image to see it full size or to go through them all slide-show style.)
Last night we were enjoying dinner outside when we looked up to see a sky filled — hard to do this justice — with a bird that seemed to be some kind of raptor. My guess is that it is a falcony-like bird (kestrel or something?). It seemed to be up there feasting on the bugs that were so prevalent last night, but maybe it was the dragonflies? It was a smaller raptor and had a kind of stripe across the wings.
I wish I could describe to you how many there were. I’ve never seen anything quite like it. They moved in a mass of them more like a school of fish than birds and seemed to be focused on eating and eating. Simply hundreds of them. I was surprised that a raptor would eat insects but that seemed to be what they were doing.
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