Life as we Live it: Marblehead Lighthouse and Birding

Hello world! It's been far too long since I've updated this blog. Without really doing much, it seems as if life has been really busy the past few months. It's hard to believe February is almost over.

Life is good, Andrew moved clinics at work and I think he is pretty happy. He has more responsibility and that makes him happy. I love my job working two days a week at the nature center. And next week I start a part-time internship!

I love making progress in my field, and every bit of experience I can add to my resume before I graduate is a benefit to me. It does mean that time will be even more precious. I will work Monday-Saturday. That is short term though, it is only three months and then life will be back to normal.

Anyway, just a few weekends ago Andrew had some leave to use and we decided to head up to Marblehead Lighthouse on Lake Erie. It's somewhere Andrew and I have been talking about seeing for a long time, and never had the chance to go there.

We picked a perfect day to do it. The sun was shining and the temperature reached at least 45. Of course, there was no one else there. Except a Border Patrol SUV in the parking lot.

I'm glad we saw it during this time of year, it was beautiful.

After spending a little while walking around the property (museum was closed for the season). We stopped at a little cafe down the road called Avery's Cafe...highly suggest it. It was delicious.

After that we headed south to stop by Killdeer Plains preserve to look for some birds. I had gone a few weeks earlier with work and hoped Andrew would get to see some good birds.

We stopped at the owl wintering area and tried spotting roosting owls, but no luck. We did however find several owl pellets which I took home and dissected. More on that later.

After leaving the wintering area, we hit the jackpot and saw several short-eared owls. And got pretty close to a couple of them!