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1/6 Raptures over raptors - Erik Bruhnke just loves birds

Hawk Ridge draws hundreds of visitors every fall to watch the raptors migrating south.  But where do they end up?

Another Hawk Ridge favorite, birder, guide and nature photographer Erik Bruhnke entertained and educated visitors for six years before taking a job in Texas as a field naturalist and tour guide.

Credit ©Erik Bruhnke
A kettle of broad-winged hawks. A kettle is a collective term for raptors migrating - and catching themals - together and may include more than one species

And he's just as excited about the birds at the south end of the migration as he is at the north.

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.