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Winter 2018 seems to have come early – Recent photos

Searching for a Crossing…

Retreat to the woods

Final leap from a series of Canada lynx crossing a creek…

More February activity in the woods…from Feb – 2018

Pine Marten — Pine marten tracking snowshoe hare – Superior National Forest

20180223-_MG_0031 — Yearling bull moose with antlers in late February – Minnesota

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20180224-_MG_0087 — Temperance River State Park on February Day

20180224-_MG_0096 — Ice, The Lake and winter from Temperance River State Park

20180210-_MG_0898 — That sun is bright! This red fox is a fixture in an area I frequent. At least, I think it’s the same one. It often will come out of the woods and approach the vehicle when I stop. I fear that someone feeds it and that is why it always approaches. When it realizes I have nothing to offer, it moves on down the road…

20180210-_MG_0909 — Do you have treats? No sir, I do not.

20180121-_MG_0089 — Spruce grouse in a winter pine. One of my favorites to see in the woods…

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20151231-_MG_0102-3 — New Year’s Eve aurora! Briefly, through the clouds the northern lights danced on New Year’s Eve 2015.

20151231-_MG_0021 — Crazy ice formations along the shores of Lake Superior.

20160103-_MG_0165 — Wild ice forming on the Temperance River this week.

20151228-_MG_1030 — Chattering squirrel in my tree. Caught him mid chatter while he was taking a break from eating all the birdseed…

20151108-_MG_0217 — November Aurora – 11/8/2015 A light aurora night with a few spikes of action and color.

20151107-_MG_0147 — Sawbill Trail Snowfall Light snow blanketed portions of Superior National Forest this weekend!

20151107-_MG_0166 — SNOWFALL!!!! Love it or hate it, winter is coming…

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About Tom

Images from Superior National Forest, Lake Superior and points beyond… Tom Spence is a 25 year resident of Minnesota’s Lake Superior North Shore. A carpenter by trade, Tom spends most of his free time in the woods of Superior National Forest, canoeing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and on the lakes and trails in the surrounding area, always with a camera near by. Published landscape and wildlife photography and video as seen in print or online or on TV at Lake Superior Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, Minnesota Conservation Volunteer Magazine,
Warner Brothers Television Productions U.K., Animal Planet, Washington Post, Virgin Atlantic Travel Blog, Minnesota Monthly Magazine, Space Weather, Capture Minnesota Books including Grand Prize Landscape in Minnesota In Seasons, Omega Watches Lifetime Magazine, Minnesota Outdoor News, Northern Wilds, and many other local and regional publications.