As a fyi, I live in Duluth and bird the North Shore constantly. The pygmy crab apple crop in the Duluth area is poor. This fruit will not be attracting birds late this fall or winter. The Mountain Ash trees are okay, but the yield is not super (assume for both the apples and mountain ash this is because of the drought). . However, I just arrived in Grand Marais about an hour ago, and the Mountain Ash trees are amazingly loaded with fruit. I have to believe in the near future the birds migration south, per normal, will make a major stop in Grand Marais. Tomorrow I will work the Gunflint Trail and then backroads to the Arrowhead Trail down to Hovland.
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