Mississippi River

I get the opportunity to work on a number of different shows for Wisconsin Public Television. This week one of my "tasks" was to go on a 90 minute Mississippi River boat cruise. The Mississippi Explorer Cruise took a small group of folks out in a back channel of the river to look for wildlife. We saw a bald eagle on a nest, lots of sunning turtles (that plopped into the water as the boat approached), blue herons, a beaver den, some small shorebirds identified by a local as "snipes". Turkey vultures soared overhead, swallows zoomed past, and for a brief moment we saw a flash of orange . . . a Baltimore Oriole.

Now that's livin.