Cedar Point Birds in Flight
In addition to auxarus festivus, I also worked on some birds in flight yesterday at Cedar Point.
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Midges Cedar Point
I enjoyed the sunrise at Cedar point on Lake Buchanan yesterday and with the approaching Festivus season (“the festivus for the rest of us”) it was nice to find many of these beautiful Axarus festivus (as I’m told by iNat) a variety of midge.