These photos were taken on the first of the 7 days I spent visiting some of the birding spots in North Dakota. There are 63 national wildlife refuges in North Dakota and the Prairie Pothole region is listed in “Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die: Birding Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations" by Chris Santella. June is purported to be a good month for birding and I decided to give it a try. The weather report was favorable and I did have good lighting conditions most of the trip, but the wind blew 15-30 mph almost every day . . . not good conditions for seeing some of the grassland birds that were on my target list. Stay tuned for more photos from my first birding trip to North Dakota.