Five Birding Trips in Four Days... Amazing people, birds and more!

Clare, Eric and I... they were visiting all the way from Indiana!	The birding group I showed around, visiting from NW Wisconsin!	Some of the birders from NE Wisconsin	Birding buddies and guides!	Two birders I guided around Monday morning. They were visiting from New Jersey	Dinner with the birders that I guided Monday afternoon
Walking through a bog in Aitkin County, during the Sax-Zim Bog festival	Seth guiding the birders around at the Sax-Zim Festival	Hoar Frost in Sax-Zim Bog	Black-backed Woodpecker	Black-backed Woodpecker	Black-capped Chickadee
Mad Bald Eagle	Rough-legged Hawk, soaking up the early morning rays	Rough-legged Hawk (adult male) dark morph	Rough-legged Hawk (adult male) dark morph	Adult male light morph Rough-legged Hawk. So speckled and pale!	Adult male light morph Rough-legged Hawk
Adult male light morph Rough-legged Hawk. So speckled and pale!	White-winged Crossbill. Adult male	White-winged Crossbill	Hoary Redpoll (right) and Common Redpoll (left)	Hoary Redpoll (lower left) and Common Redpoll (upper right)	Two Hoary Redpolls and two Common Redpolls. Can you pick them out? :-)
Hoary Redpoll in the foreground	Hoary Redpoll backside (right) and Common Redpoll (left)	Hoary Redpoll... so frosty, tiny-billed and beautiful!	Hoary Redpolls	Ruffed Grouse	Rough-legged Hawk (adult male) light morph
Glaucous Gull... "I'm from the arctic, and I'm frosty-beautiful!"	Glaucous Gull	Glaucous Gull coming in for a landing	Great Black-backed Gulls, with three Glaucous Gulls	Gulls!	Gulls!
Thayer's Gull, coming in to check out the adult Glaucous Gull (back) and Herring Gulls	Adult Glaucous Gull with Herring Gull	Herring Gull... You can't see me	Herring Gull... Peek a Boo	Herring Gull. American Race, or too pale?	Herring Gull. American Race, or too pale?
Female Hooded Mergansers with the Common Goldeneyes	Hooded Merganser x Common Goldeneye hybrid, with Common Goldeneyes	Hooded Merganser x Common Goldeneye hybrid, with Common Goldeneye	Thayer's Gull (middle) surrounded by Herring Gulls	Thayer's Gull... "whatcha doing down there, Herring Gull?"	Thayer's Gull flying overhead
Thayer's Gull	Thayer's Gull	Thayer's Gull	Thayer's Gull	Thayer's Gull	Thayer's Gull 1st-cycle
Thayer's Gull (1st-cycle) coming in for a landing	Thayer's Gull (1st-cycle)	Thayer's Gull (1st-cycle)	Great BB Gull (front), Thayer's Gull (middle), Herring Gull (back)	Snow Owl - adult male	Snow Owl - adult male
Snow Owl - adult male	Snowy Owl	Snowy Owl at civil twilight	Adult Glaucous Gull