Oct. 24, 2010 - More North Shore Photos

There really is a bird in the photo on the left. Look in the center of the photo and you will see a very well-camouflaged Brown Creeper. It disappears against the bark of a dark tree. In the photo on the right, you can see the bird more easily against the light-colored tree trunk. Brown Creepers feed by flying to the base of a large tree and working their way upward, sometimes spiraling around the trunk as they move higher. It is thought that by going up the tree they find insects and insect eggs hidden in the bark that are missed by other birds, like nuthatches, who work their way down a tree. Both of these photos were taken on Cook County Road 140.

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I took this photo of a White-tailed Deer from the door of our cabin at Fenstad’s Resort in Little Marais, MN

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We stopped at Paradise Beach which is right along the shore of Lake Superior. I found this grasshopper among the rocks on the beach. I don’t have any experience identifying grasshoppers so I submitted a photo to the website bugguide.net and someone identified it as an adult female Clear-winged Grasshopper.

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Identifying sparrows can be a daunting task. But if you look closely, some of them are really handsome LBJs (little brown jobs). This Lincoln’s Sparrow was also found in Cook County. It was along County Road 48.

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Chipmunks were busy gathering food for the winter. This one posed for me in the yard by our cabin at Fenstad’s.

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