1. Birding Tours & Rates

Rates and Daily Details

 

  • Daily rates are $300 for the first person, $175 per each additional person
  • The majority of the trips I lead up to the Bog are with the participant's vehicles, with me as a driver. I enjoy being the driver while guiding. If we use my vehicle, I asked for mileage reimbursement from the driven during our time birding together.
  • The participants will cover the guide's meal if restaurant dining takes place throughout the day of birding.

*10% of gross from this winter's trips will be donated to the Friends of Sax-Zim Bog non-profit*

 

 

All of my birding tours are upon request. When the tours date(s) are established, I will recommend lodging and dining options to fit your needs. I feel strongly about supporting local businesses and appreciating the beauty that makes northern Minnesota special. What kind of birds are you looking to see? Are there select lifers that you have in mind? Were you hoping to have more of a photography-based tour? My goal is to make each and every Naturally Avian birding tour a special and memorable experience for all participants. I'm all about soaking up the sense of place within the environments we explore. Our days of birding together are all about you having fun and seeing wonderful birds at an enjoyable pace, never being rushed! 

In 2014 I began leading birding tours for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours (VENT). This link below contains the VENT tours I will be leading in the future.
Vent (ventbird.com)

 

If you're interested in a winter birding tour in northern Minnesota, be sure to check out the article I wrote for the American Birding Association (link below). Starting on page 36, you'll find an array of tips and advice on how to stay warm while birding, even during the coldest of days!
http://bg.aba.org/i/216642

 

A Few Moments from Naturally Avian Tours

Some bird species in this gallery are quite locally rare, where others may seem quite common.  Naturally Avian has led birding ventures for people coming from 41 states and 4 European countries.

  • Great Gray Owl
  • Boreal Owl
  • Northern Hawk Owl
  • Gray Jay
  • Pine Grosbeak and Gray Jay
  • Connecticut Warbler
  • Boreal Chickadee
  • Cape May Warbler
  • Snowy Spruces
  • Snowy Sunrise
  • Snowy Owl
  • Hoary Redpolls
  • Parasitic Jaeger chasing a Ring-billed Gull
  • Northern Goshawk
  • Black-legged Kittiwake
  • Buff-breasted Sandpiper
  • Iceland Gull
  • Black-backed Woodpecker
  • Northern Goshawk
  • Glaucous Gull, with Ring-billed Gulls
  • Parasitic Jaeger chasing a Long-tailed Jaeger
  • Black-capped Chickadee, tail-propping in -30F windchill
  • Thayer's Gull
  • Bufflehead
  • Moose
  • Cedar Waxwing
  • Great Black-backed Gull
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • Flurry of Common Redpolls
  • Cottongrass in Sax-Zim Bog
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler
  • Dunlin
  • Fox Sparrow
  • Great Gray Owl in mid-summer
  • Indigo Bunting
  • Iris
  • Iceland Gull (left) and Thayer's Gull (right)
  • Labrador Tea
  • Lincoln's Sparrow
  • Mourning Cloak
  • Mourning Warbler
  • Nashville Warbler
  • Northern Hawk Owl
  • Northern Harrier
  • Northern Shrike
  • Porcupine
  • Red Crossbills
  • Rough-legged Hawk
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Sandhill Crane
  • Semipalmated Plover
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper
  • Spider Web
  • Northern Goshawk
  • Sunrise in the bog
  • Sunset in the bog
  • Sunrise in the Sax-Zim Bog
  • Wilson's Snipe
  • White-throated Sparrow
  • White-winged Crossbill
  • Kumlien's Gull. Wisconsin
  • Thayer's Gull. Wisconsin
  • Bald Eagle (adult). Minnesota

Fun birding trip moments with participants

  • Wrapping up a two-day tour after rocking a rich assortment of northern specialties, including 7 different Great Gray Owls, 2 Northern Hawk Owls, 1 Boreal Owl, and 1 Snowy Owl!
  • Started the day out with boreal specialties, followed by some gullwatching, and ending the day with a Snowy Owl! (Duluth, MN)
  • Wrapping up a day of birding the northwoods, with birders visiting from Missouri. (Duluth, MN)
  • After a day of gullwatching and fun times! (Duluth, MN)
  • A fun birding tour along Wisconsin Point (Superior, WI)
  • Two parties coming from very distant locations... and having a blast in Sax-Zim Bog (Cotton, MN)
  • Birding in the bog by morning, hawkwatching through the afternoon, and ending the day atop Duluth, MN!
  • Friends visiting from Ohio... we had a fantastic day in the bog! (Duluth, MN)
  • After a successful winter day of birding in the bogs, we went inside to have dinner at Fitger's Brewhouse (Duluth, MN)

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