An exciting day at the bird feeder this morning!!! A scarlet tanager!!!! And the dark Baltimore Oriole came back with the rest of the bunch. I had six boys here this morning (seven if you include the dark one), and one poor female.

Such a bright color!!!

Wood stove going yesterday because it was so chilly, and today it got up to 94°. Bizarre! And this morning I saw the strangest Baltimore Oriole! He was a dark rusty red instead of bright orange.

This is the normal coloring:

I’m in 7th heaven!!!!! I’ve got 5 orioles at my feeder!!!!

Incredible pictures and video of the ice tsunami at Mille Lacs Lake over the weekend, http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/photo-galleries/2013/05/11/ice-surging-off-of-lake-mille-lacs/photo-357352/. This stuff was moving just like a lava flow, and piling up 30’ high. Really weird!!