Lifers

Encouraged by FirstLife, Barb and I explored our analog environment today. A couple of year-birds/lifers, a Varied Thrush in Saint Paul and a Gyrfalcon south of the cities. Both stake-outs were amazingly easy to find. The Gyr was especially popular. Six cars pulled over in the middle-of-nowhere on highway 52, staring at an irrigation rig - with large falcon. Compared notes with another FirstLifer from Virginia (as in east coast VA, not Virginia, MN) here for a long weekend of birding. Everywhere’s famous for something.

Then on to Wirth for a round, or two, of skiing. Nice enough day and our analog activities warmed us to the point where the breeze was quite refreshing.

Warmer this week. We'll lose the little snow that we have. Hope you enjoyed FirstWinter while you could.