Number six! I enjoy doing these …especially the birding! Not so much fun to come home and download 4 memory cards (two cameras, sound recorder, Go Pro) and then edit 200 clips into a 15-20 minute video before bed. Long day! (I have to upload to Youtube overnight due to our family usage of WiFi during the day).
Highlights of this trip include a hunting Great Gray Owl, a dirt-eating Porcupine, breeding White-winged Crossbills, juvenile Canada jays and 10 species of warblers including Magnolia, Northern Waterthrush, Black and white Warbler, tour of the new MOTUS tower and more. Sponsored by Friends of Sax-Zim Bog.
May 20, 2020
Sparky Stensaas
thesparkygroup@gmail.com
4 responses to “Virtually Live 6 Birding Field Trip to the Sax-Zim Bog; May 19, 2020”
David Olmstead
May 20th, 2020 at 13:10
Thank you for taking us along. I live in Nashville and it is interesting that you are beginning to see the birds that were passing through here a week or so ago, although not in the numbers you are seeing in Minnesota.
Sorry these field trips will be ending.
Debra and Mark Thurlo
May 22nd, 2020 at 16:27
Sparky, these field trips just make our week!! We loved the Great Grey Owl footage today, and the last time we saw Magpies, was on our Canadian Rockies trip 10 years ago in Saskatoon! ! You are entertaining, sooo knowledgeable (I forward your weeklies to my girlfriend who is also a birding enthusiast), and your photography is beautiful. Thanks so much!
Deb in Minnetonka, Mn.
Michael Juratovac
May 23rd, 2020 at 07:21
Thanks Sparky, love these field trips and hope you will continue these type vlogs in the future. I live in beautiful West Virginia, but you have inspired me to want to come and spend some time at the Sax-Zim Bog. Keep up the great work!
JoAnn Stensaas Cobb
June 4th, 2020 at 14:00
Thank you, Sparky! Beautiful footage and interesting to learn about the motus wildlife tracking network. Also, thanks for labeling the birds.