Explored!
114 photos
My Best Bird Shots
170 photos
After roughly 15 years of bird watching and taking photos, I feel these are the best of my best. I couldn't begin to estimate how many hours have gone into these 170 images! My method is to go out...
Colorful Combinations
207 photos
My Best Butterfly Shots
69 photos
My Favorite Photos of 2023
36 photos
My Favorite Photos of 2022
39 photos
Birds of Spring
1268 photos, 1 video
March - April - May
Birds of Summer
587 photos
June - July - August
Birds of Autumn
677 photos
September - October - November
Birds of Winter
1048 photos, 1 video
December - January - February
Birds and nests or with nesting material
104 photos, 1 video
Birds and Plants
891 photos
Birds perched on or feeding from wild plants, flowers, and trees.
Birds at feeders
16 photos
Birds in Flight
239 photos, 1 video
Birds of the Grassland & Prairie
252 photos, 1 video
1. Sedge Wren
2. Bobolink
3. Meadowlark (Eastern and Western)
4. Dickcissel
5. Field Sparrow
6. Lark Sparrow
7. Grasshopper Sparrow
8. Vesper Sparrow
9. Clay-colored Sparrow
10. LeConte's Sparrow
11....
Birds with Fish or other Aquatic Creatures
10 photos
Birds of Prey (other)
135 photos
Hawks, Falcons, Osprey, Vultures, Harriers. No Eagles or Owls.
Birds Vocalizing
247 photos
Birds with Insects or Larva
36 photos
Birds with fall backdrops
120 photos
Published or Sold Photos
114 photos
Scenery, Landscapes and Foliage
438 photos, 1 video
Minnesota State Parks and SNAs
200 photos
Various images from various Minnesota's system of State Parks and Recreation areas.
Three Rivers Park District
609 photos
Your home to the outdoors
www.threeriversparks.org/
Frontenac State Park
18 photos
Crow-Hassan Park Reserve
49 photos
Between St. Michael and Rogers, MN
Carver Park Reserve
69 photos
Mississippi Gateway Regional Park (Hennepin...
109 photos
And Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park (Anoka County)
Silverwood Park St. Anthony, MN
392 photos
North Shore & Lake Superior
100 photos
My Native Gardens
112 photos, 1 video
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Started project in 2015
Plants & Flowers - Native to MN
959 photos
Butterflies, Moths & Caterpillars
777 photos, 2 videos
Too bad summer is short in Minnesota!
Dragonflies and Damselflies
92 photos
American Crow (Corvidae)
10 photos
American White Pelican
14 photos
American Woodcock
35 photos
Blackbirds (ICTERIDAE)
299 photos
Red-winged Blackbird
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewers Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Baltimore Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Bobolink
Brown Creepers (Certhiidae)
77 photos
Brown Thrashers (Mimidae)
24 photos
Buntings and Longspurs (Calcariidae)
26 photos
Cardinals (Cardinalidae)
181 photos
Chickadees and Titmice (Paridae)
177 photos, 1 video
Dickcissel (Cardinalidae)
55 photos
Doves
28 photos
Ducks, Mergansers & Coots
552 photos
Another favorite subject of mine, waterfowl can be equally as challenging as other birds. Unlike Mallards who easily tolerate humans, most migrating waterfowl that return in the spring do not. It can...
Eagles
77 photos
Finches (Fringillidae)
375 photos
Minnesota Finches
1. American Goldfinch
2. Common Redpoll
4. House Finch
4. Purple Finch
5. Pine Siskin
6. Pine Grosbeak
7. Evening Grosbeak
8. Red Crossbill
9. White-winged Crossbill
Flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
84 photos
Flycatchers of Minnesota:
1. Eastern Phoebe
2. Eastern Kingbird
3. Western Kingbird
4. Least Flycatcher
5. Olive-sided Flycatcher
6. Great Crested Flycatcher
7. Eastern Wood Pewee
8. Willow...
Fledglings and Chicks
75 photos
Geese
77 photos, 1 video
Gnatcatchers (Polioptilidae)
45 photos
Gray Catbirds (Mimidae)
53 photos
Grebes, Loons & Cormorants
96 photos
Grosbeaks
61 photos
Gulls and Terns
21 photos
Herons, Egrets, Cranes, Rails, Coots, Bitterns &...
276 photos, 1 video
No Shorebirds
Insects, Bees & Spiders
173 photos
Keeping Dragonflies and Damselflies in a separate album
Horned Larks
27 photos
Hummingbirds
94 photos
Indigo Buntings (Cardinalidae)
145 photos
Jays (Corvidae)
101 photos
Juncos (Passerellidae)
107 photos
Kinglets (Regulidae)
139 photos
Nuthatches (Sittidae)
97 photos
Only two species of Nuthatch here in MN. White-breasted and Red-breasted.
Orioles (Icteridae)
79 photos
Owls
217 photos
Sparrows (Passerellidae)
386 photos
Definitely one of my favorite bird families! I used to be so confused by them all :)
Shorebirds
171 photos
Shrikes
28 photos, 1 video
Northern Shrike and Loggerhead Shrike in Minnesota
Swallows, Swifts and Martins
43 photos
Swans
56 photos
Trumpeter Swan, Tundra Swan, Mute Swan
Tanagers
52 photos
Thrushes (Turdidae)
314 photos, 1 video
Minnesota Thrushes:
1. American Robin
2. Eastern Bluebird
3. Mountain Bluebird (rare)
4. Gray-cheeked Thrush
5. Hermit Thrush
6. Swainson's Thrush
7. Wood Thrush
8. Veery
9. Townsend's Solitaire...
Vireos (Vireonidae)
84 photos
Warblers
713 photos
My favorite –and most challenging– birds to photograph are Warblers. If you've ever met a bird enthusiast, they are likely to go on and on about Warblers. This is because Warblers are among the...
Waxwings
86 photos
Wild Game Birds
94 photos
Commonly hunted MN Wild Game Birds
Wrens
56 photos
Woodpeckers
269 photos
Nine Woodpecker Species found in Minnesota:
1. Downy Woodpecker
2. Hairy Woodpecker
3. Pileated Woodpecker
4. Red-bellied Woodpecker
5. Northern Flicker
6. Red-headed Woodpecker
7. Yellow-bellied...
Birds (ALL KINDS!)
5781 photos, 4 videos
I never really intended to photograph birds but it has helped me to ID them better. Birds are by far my favorite subject of all and I never tire of both how challenging and rewarding of a subject...
Non-native and captive birds
34 photos
Deer
102 photos
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Fall Foliage
209 photos
One of my favorite subjects each year, I have one place in particular where I love to look at the leaves almost more than the birds at Hillside Cemetery in Minneapolis. I especially like that they...
Fungi
18 photos
Mammals & Marsupials
174 photos
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My Own Yard
145 photos, 1 video
Brooklyn Center, MN
Myself and other birders
12 photos
Reptiles, Amphibians & Gastropods
50 photos
Plants, Flowers and Fungi (all)
797 photos, 1 video
Squirrels
64 photos
Akeley and Walker Minnesota
42 photos
My wife's parents have a family cabin just outside of Akeley, Minnesota. We've taken countless trips here but I've never done much serious birding in the area until this past weekend. On Saturday...
Belwin Conservancy Afton, MN
15 photos
Bloomington/MN River Valley
80 photos
1. Hyland Lake Park Reserve
2. Moir Park
3. Pond-Dakota Mission Park
4. Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge
5. Old Cedar Avenue Bridge
6. Bass Ponds
Carlos Avery WMA
37 photos
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve and Fish...
48 photos
Centennial Park, Brooklyn Center, MN
19 photos
Shingle Creek watershed
Crex Meadows
12 photos
Falcon Heights Community Park
235 photos
Fridley, MN
153 photos
1. Springbrook
2. Riverfront Regional
3. Northern Stacks Industrial Park
4. Locke Park
North Mississippi Regional Park
1506 photos, 1 video
Over the past few years this area has become one of my favorite placed to go birding besides Palmer Lake Park. Is located just east of I-94 and follows the Mississippi through North Minneapolis.
On...
Boom Island Park
14 photos
140th & 180th Street Marsh
11 photos
Rosemount, MN (Dakota County)
Henderson, MN
27 photos
Hillside & Sunset Cemeteries
1458 photos
My newest place to go birding during my lunch hour. Who knew there would be such a variety of birds in a cemetery? I've logged a number of surprising species here including Tufted Titmouse,...
Lake Elmo Regional Park
45 photos
Lake Osakis, MN
23 photos
Lake Shetek and surrounding State Parks
18 photos
Trip to Lake Shetek SP, Camden SP and Kilen Woods SP in May of 2016.
Loring Park Minneapolis
107 photos
Marshall Terrace Park
34 photos
2740 Marshall St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418
Minneopa State Park Mankato, MN
6 photos
MN State Parks Trip May 2012
9 photos
This May we took a weekend trip to Glendalough and Maplewood State Parks just east of Fergus Falls. With my wife along I wasn't necessarily planning on "birding" until we walked only a...
My Big Month (May 2016)
82 photos
Another year of bird watching all 31 days of May. Kind of a birding/photographic challenge for myself to find and photograph a different bird every day.
My Big Month (May 2015)
106 photos
Attempting another month of daily bird watching all 31 days of May 2015. This time my daily outings will not be limited to Minnesota as I have some planned trips to both Wisconsin and South Dakota.
My Big Month (May 2013)
60 photos
After seeing the movie "The Big Year" starring Steve Martin and Jack Black, I was inspired to get out birding more often. I decided to do my own "Big Month" and am attempting to...
Namekagon Barrens Wildlife Area Minong, WI
17 photos
Visited on April 11th 2015 with Wild Bill in MN
North Cascades National Park 2019
20 photos
June 2019
Northern MN trip September 2016
11 photos
Palmer Lake Park & Brookdale Park
985 photos, 2 videos
My little slice of heaven is called Palmer Lake Park –a marshland in the middle of two major suburbs of Minneapolis; Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park. I first started visiting this park simply for...
Penn Ponds
49 photos
Shingle Creek holding ponds at 52nd Ave N and Upton Ave. N.
Purgatory Creek Park Eden Prairie
12 photos
Raptor Center University of Minnesota
25 photos
This Saturday afternoon I attended a photography workshop hosted by the Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota. After a tour of the facilities and learning some tips in photography we were...
Reservoir Woods Park
27 photos
Rice Creek North Regional Park
15 photos
Roseville, MN
66 photos
Rocky Mountain National Park
21 photos
For our anniversary this year, my wife and I visited Rocky Mountain National Park from June 8th to the 15th. Amongst all the beautiful mountain scenery there were many interesting birds, mammals and...
Salt Lake WMA Minnesota/South Dakota border
12 photos
Sax-Zim Bog Birding Area
122 photos
Northern Minnesota - St. Louis County
Shakopee, MN
50 photos
Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge
74 photos
Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge consists of 30,700 acres of Federal land dedicated to the conservation, management, and where appropriate, restoration of fish, wildlife, and plant resources and...
Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge
25 photos
Vadnais Heights, MN
52 photos
Veterans Memorial Park
72 photos
Veterans Memorial Park is a MUST visit in early May when Warblers return!
Westwood Hills Nature Center St. Louis Park
22 photos
William H. Houlton Conservation Area
13 photos
Elk River (Sherburne County), MN
Wisconsin
102 photos
Wood Lake Nature Center & Richfield Lake Park
143 photos, 1 video
Yellowstone National Park 2017
15 photos
Abandoned MN
40 photos
Some photos from my other blog: abandonedmn.blogspot.com
For Leslie
11 photos
Snow Goose or Ross' Goose
6 photos
...you decide 2017!
Travis Bonovsky sample photos
2 photos
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