This weekend, we have our friends Tim & Pat in town for a quick visit following our bike ride across Minnesota. Yesterday, we went looking for the Big Wood Brewery in White Bear Lake. Our son Jeff told me where to find it “back behind the Kellerman’s...
Today is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Memories flooded my brain from my short stint living in one of my favorite cities. In September 1976, Tina and I met in Kreuzberg, just off the corner of Wrangelstrasse and Falckensteinstrasse. I did not...
In July, Tina and I had the opportunity to travel to Kenya for a photo safari with our family. I have about 4,000 images to sort through, but here are a few images shots from the trip. More images posted at http://www.bnwilson.net/. Purple Grenadier Lilac-breasted...
On a recent trip to Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in central Kansas, I was fortunate to see several new birds. Two of these were shorebirds migrating north through these Kansas wetlands. The American Avocet and Wilson’s Phalarope.
The Pel’s Fishing Owl is found in sub-Saharan Africa. It is classified as threatened in South Africa – where its numbers have dwindled due to loss of habitat and pollution – and is uncommon and localized elsewhere. The Okavango Delta of Botswana, however, provides one...
