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Spruce Grouse- on a snowy windy day when bird activity was nil, I watched this grouse for an hour as it walked in the spruce trees and ate their needles (big part of its diet, yuck), before it tucked under some branches to weather the intensifying storm.
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Spruce Grouse
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Spruce Grouse
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Pine Grosbeak - it was -27 degrees the morning I shot this photo. Coldest I've ever been out in.
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Pine Grosbeak female
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Pine Grosbeak - you can see how large the Pine Grosbeak is by comparison to the Common Redpoll
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Pine Grosbeak female
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Bohemian Waxwings
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Bohemian Waxwings - this is part of a flock of about 200 that we saw in the city of Duluth
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American Three-toed Woodpecker female
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Black-backed Woodpecker female
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"smoke" phase Wild Turkey - the light color is caused by recessive genes in both parents.
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Great Gray Owl
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Great Gray Owl
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Hey, you're looking the wrong way!
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Snowy Owl
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Snowy Owl on a snowy day
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Common Redpoll
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Ruffed Grouse - in the winter the grouse like to climb up into bushes and short trees to eat buds and catkins. This one was right near the side of a road.
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This Northern Saw-whet Owl was sitting in a small aspen tree at the road's edge, actively listening for voles in the snow. We stopped the car and snapped away out the window. He never did more than turn his head, so after 15 min. we left him to his hunt
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Boreal Chickadee
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Evening Grosbeak
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This Barred Owl found a little stub of a branch sticking out of this Aspen tree to perch on. It almost looks like a woodpecker clinging to the trunk.
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White-winged Crossbill female
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White-winged Crossbill
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White-winged Crossbills
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Cedar Waxwing - in northern Minnesota in winter, Cedar Waxwings are a lot less common than Bohemians. Although we saw hundreds of Bohemians, we found only a small group of Cedars.
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Bohemian Waxwings
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Bohemian Waxwings
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American Bald Eagle