A snow bird, he spends 3 months each winter in central Florida and has enjoyed birding Lake Apopka for the past 4 years. An official Observer for the Detroit River Hawk Watch and one of its photographers this fall, Mark makes an annual trip to the Northern Minnesota’s Sax Zim Bog during February to see and photograph Great Gray, Northern Hawk and Boreal Owls. He wades into chest deep marshes, crawls on hands and knees and hikes miles for an opportunity to see and photograph nature. Before coming to Florida this winter he spent 4 weeks of exhaustive birding for Snowy Owls and Short-eared Owls and was able to see and photograph both. He missed out on Long-eared and Saw-whets, but hopes to get them in March. Mark will be co-leading Trip1 with Lynn-Marie Folts.