The past week and a half has led to new experiences and new destinations for me and friends to the great state of Minnesota, Manitoba and Ontario. The travels started with a trip to Minneapolis to catch a few Twins ballgames.

While traversing across Minnesota, several great egrets, American bittern, mallards, northern pintails, gadwall, ruddy ducks, double-crested cormorants, American white pelicans, great blue herons and, of course, Canada geese. On the return trip back home to Mandan from Minneapolis, a red-tailed hawk nearly became a victim along Interstate 94 has it had been gorging on a ground squirrel on the mainline of the highway before it flared up quickly from its meal to avoid a collision with oncoming traffic.

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://bismarcktribune.com/lifestyles/outdoors/baseball-fishing-lead-to-bird-sightings/article_3ee2fd22-bcb0-536a-ad1e-3cafef98dde0.html