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Published February 17, 2013, 12:00 AM

Photo gallery: Birding at the Sax-Zim Bog


Birders from across the country gather Saturday in front of the bus they were taking through the Sax-Zim Bog. They had stopped to watch a rough-legged hawk in the distance. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)

  • Birders from across the country gather Saturday in front of the bus they were taking through the Sax-Zim Bog. They had stopped to watch a rough-legged hawk in the distance. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Leanne Reichel of Cambridge, Minn., looks through a spotting scope at a rough-legged hawk during the Sax-Zim Bog Winter Birding Festival on Saturday.
  • A sign at the edge of town in Meadowlands welcomes birders Saturday.
  • A flock of snow buntings in a tree was one of the highlights spotted by birders aboard bus No. 9 during the sixth annual Sax-Zim Bog Winter Birding Festival on Saturday. (Photos by Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • A group of birders from around the country get out of the bus they're traveling in to check out interesting and unusual birds in the Sax-Zim Bog on Saturday.
  • Birding guide Roy Zimmerman uses a spotting scope to track a rough-legged hawk during the Saz-Zim Bog Winter Birding Festival on Saturday morning.