Our first day in Sax-Zim Bog in Minnesota set a pretty high bar for the rest of the trip. We started the day taking images of the Wolf Moon setting over the Bog. Then, despite bone-chilling temperatures, we photographed a cooperative Great Gray Owl within the first hour of our arrival when the temperature had dropped to -21°. Temperatures hovered in the negative mid-teens for most of the morning but by early afternoon had started to drop a little when we encountered a perched Bald Eagle surveying the area. By the time we found the cooperative Barred Owl, above, in late afternoon, -4° didn’t seem too bad. And, we ended the day with a colorful sunset, something I don’t recall seeing here on any previous visit. Encountering and photographing two owls on our first day and doing a little bit of landscape photography too was a great start. Day 1 has set a high bar but I can’t wait to see what Day 2 brings.