[mou] Favorite Birding Location

[Holly Peirson]

Let's see....

My favorite birding location is the BWCAW, where I learned the songs of many
of our breeding warblers. Sitting in a canoe in the early AM with mist on
the water, listening and looking for birds when the fishing gets slow,
watching the sun play in sparkles on the water, is my idea of relaxation.
Whenever I hear a Black-throated Green, Parula, or a Pine Warbler, I
immediately begin to relax and just take in sound.

Another favorite spot is the Frontenac area in the spring, when the migrants
are moving through. Before kids, we used to go to Point Pelee just E of
Detroit (in Canada) each May, but now I go to Frontenac. It's closer to
home, more accessible, fewer crowds of the 2-legged kind, and the birds are
just as good but a little more spread out!

For a nice short trip with nothing more than seeing what's there in mind,
Carlos Avery is very nice.

For a nice LONG trip with thoughts of coastal species in mind, I like the
Texas coast in the late winter/early spring, but have never been there for a
fall-out. I like Laguna Atascosa, Santa Ana, Sabal Palm, and used to like
Bentsen St. Park..., all of which are within a day's drive (and birding
time) of S. Padre Is. where we used to stay, which BTW has some great
boardwalks to help in your search for rails...

I also like birding in Colorado where we spend a couple of weeks every year
visiting reli's. Sometimes we're able to get out to Pawnee Nat'l Grasslands
to look for Mt. Plovers, Longspurs, and Pipits, sometimes we go up to Trail
Ridge Rd in Rocky Mtn NP for some tundra species.

Wherever we go, the binoculars are with us...

How's that for diversity!!
Holly Peirson
Forest Lake area, Anoka Co. (listening distance from Carlos, where I hear
Sandhills most AM's from March to Oct.)