My Sax-Zim Bog Birding Trips - Winter 2011 Photo Gallery by Erik Bruhnke at pbase.com

My Sax-Zim Bog Birding Trips - Winter 2011

Here are just some of the beautiful sights of scenery, birds & more that can be seen at Sax-Zim Bog; a beautiful, rustic black spruce/tamarack bog located in northeastern Minnesota! All of the photos in this gallery were taken while I was leading birding trips to this bog. Enjoy!

Snow Buntings!	Snow Buntings!	Sax-Zim Bog	Rough-legged Hawks... can you spot all 5 in this photo?	Black-billed Magpie, with distant Rough-legged Hawk in the background	Gray Jay... my friend calls them Chickadees on steroids.
Gray Jay	Male Rough-legged Hawk (light morph)	Rough-legged Hawk (dark morph)	Rough-legged Hawk (light morph) hovering	Rough-legged Hawk (light morph) hovering	Rough-legged Hawk (light morph)
Rough-legged Hawk (light morph) checking for food running around!	Rough-legged Hawk (light morph) hovering	RLHA3.jpg	Rough-legged Hawk (light morph) hovering	Rough-legged Hawk (light morph) hovering	Rough-legged Hawk (light morph)
Rough-legged Hawk (light morph)	Rough-legged Hawk (light morph)	Rough-legged Hawk (light morph)	Red-tailed Hawk	Red-tailed Hawk	Red-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk	Red-tailed Hawk	Red-tailed Hawk	Red-tailed Hawk	Red-tailed Hawk	Red-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk	Red-tailed Hawk	Red-tailed Hawk	Black-capped Chickadee... hanging onto lunch!	Black-capped Chickadee... hanging onto lunch!	Northern Hawk Owl
Northern Hawk Owl	Sax-Zim Bog road shot	Boreal Chickadee	Boreal Chickadee	Boreal Chickadee	Boreal Chickadee
Gray Jay	Gray Jay	Northern Hawk Owl	Pine Grosbeak feeder	Pine Grosbeak	Pine Grosbeak
Pine Grosbeak	Pine Grosbeak	Pine Grosbeak with the falling snow	Ruffed Grouse	Ruffed Grouse	Sharp tailed Grouse
Can you find the Boreal Chickadee shooting through woods	Black-capped Chickadee and Red-breasted Nuthatch	Downy Woodpecker	Hairy Woodpecker	Pine Grosbeak with Gray Jay, on Tamarack branches... Boreal Bog summed up!	Pine Grosbeak
Black-capped Chickadee	Black-capped Chickadee	Blue Jay	Chickadee butts :-) Black-capped (upper) and Boreal (lower)	Boreal Chickadee	Boreal Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee	Boreal Chickadee	Downy Woodpecker	Snowy Road in the bog!	Beautiful snow	Red Squirrel and Black-capped Chickadees
Squirrel	Bald Eagle	Bald Eagle	Boreal Chickadee... can you find the little bugger	Northern Hawk Owl	Northern Hawk Owl
Pine Grosbeak	Boreal Silouette... home sweet home to this Boreal Owl!	Got an ich... that's the spot!	Beautiful stare of the Hawk Owl	Lone Hawk Owl	Any food down there, below the snow
Northern Hawk Owl... andy mice over there?	Northern Hawk Owl... any mice down there?	Northern Hawk Owl	Northern Hawk Owl... look at those fluffy feet	Northern Hawk Owl, naturally, flying by	Northern Hawk Owl
Pine Grosbeak	Gray Jay	Boreal Chickadee eating seed	Porcupine	Meadow Vole	Feeding spot of the Black-backed Woodpecker
Great Gray Owl in tree	Great Gray Owl	Great Gray Owl	Great Gray Owl	Great Gray Owl	Northern Hawk Owl... sometimes keeping balance can be tricky when it's windy
Northern Hawk Owl	Northern Hawk Owl, triangulating	Northern Hawk Owl	Northern Hawk Owl, with mouse	Northern Hawk Owl, eating a well-earned meal!	Hairy Woodpecker in flight!
Sharp-tailed Grouse by itself	Sharp-tailed Grouse	Boreal Chickadee	Northern Hawk Owl	Northern Hawk Owl	Northern Hawk Owl
Northern Hawk Owl	Ruffed Grouse... acting like an American Bittern :)	Ruffed Grouse	Black-capped Chickadee hanging on!	Black-backed Woodpecker (female) in flight	Black-backed Woodpecker (female)
Black-backed Woodpecker (male) on branch	Black-backed Woodpecker (male)	Black-backed Woodpecker (male)	Black-backed Woodpecker	Black-billed Magpie flight	Black-billed Magpie nesting material
Black-capped Chickadee	Boreal Chickadee - "talk to the wing!"	Boreal Chickadee	Common Redpoll stretching	Common Redpoll	Common Redpoll
Common Redpoll	Gray Jay in flight	Gray Jay	Hoary Redpoll	Hoary Redpoll	Hoary Redpoll
Hoary Redpoll	Labrador Tea amongst the bog	Northern Shrike in flight!	Northern Shrike - you lookin' at me?	Northern Shrike in flight	Rough-legged Hawks
Rough-legged Hawks	Red Squirrel with an itch	Red-Breasted Nuthatch	Eastern Meadowlark	Brown Creeper, tending to its nest!

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Cindy		02-Feb-2011 02:58
If you need a great place to spend the night in the bog area, look up Alesches.com Erik, I LOVE your photos. We'll have to have you guide us sometime!

Paul Roisen		29-Jan-2011 05:12
NIce set of birds. Hoping to hit Sax-Zim for the first time ever the 2nd week or 3rd weekend of Feb. Keep up the great work.

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