Birding Tour
Venture to South Africa
October 25 -November 14, 2022 With Simon Thompson Narrative and photos by Simon Thompson After our long flights from the US we all met at the Africa Moon guesthouse in Johannesburg. It was good to relax for the evening before our first full day out on the African continent. We met our local guide, Grant, […]
Read MoreVenture to North Dakota: Birding Prairies and Potholes
June 15 – 23, 2022 Narrative and Photos by Keith Watson Our tour began on June 15 in Bismarck, North Dakota, arrival day. All participants but one had arrived by 2 pm on the 15th We were able to do a little birding around our hotel where we saw and heard multiple Yellow Warblers and […]
Read MoreVenture to southern Texas
April 2-10, 2022 Narrative by Johnny Wilson, photos by Alan Lenk and Simon Thompson We had a fantastic trip to southern Texas in early April 2022. The trip focused on the Lower Rio Grande Valley, but also included short ventures to the coastal wetlands around Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and the Juniper-Oak woodlands of the […]
Read MoreVenture to Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge
February 11 – 13, 2022 Narrative and photos by Kevin Burke We had a fabulous time on our Venture to Northern Alabama and Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge. This tour was originally scheduled for the middle of January, but a large snowstorm over most of the Southeast required us to reschedule. We are glad we did, […]
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Owls & Winter Finches Kevin Burke February 2020 The weather from the Twin Cities to Sax-Zim Bog was mild, for Minnesota in the winter, and very pleasant. It was an interesting year in the bog with the booming cone crop keeping some of the regular winter finches too far north for us to see. There […]
Read MoreVenture to the Guatemalan Highlands
Nov 30-Dec 7, 2019 With Aaron Steed Our quick, week-long Guatemalan getaway was focused on birding the foothills and highlands, from the slopes of the Volcano Atitlán to the beautiful city of Antigua, for an assortment of range-restricted species and regional endemics. The excellent Los Andes Nature Reserve was our first destination and an early […]
Read MoreLouisiana
Some of us drove and some took a plane, but we all ended up at the hotel in Iowa (“Eye-oh-way”), Louisiana at the correct time! Thank goodness for cell phones, so we could at least keep track of each other on our cross-country perambulations! Our “Beat the Crowds” rail trip that first afternoon was postponed […]
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