We are east of the (tiny) Mississippi and in the Eastern Time Zone. After an extended visit to Montana we spent a few days on the prairie in North Dakota, and then drove quickly across northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. We are now camped in Hiawatha National Forest near Lake Superior. We finally have started picking up some of our Eastern summer birds, scarlet tanager, chestnut-sided warbler, etc. that we have missed by being in the West since the beginning of February. It’s fun, and we hope to find more of them before they leave the country next month. It will be tough because most everybody has stopped singing, and many are no longer in their breeding areas. We have to bump into them. We plan to run up to Whitefish Point this week, a place where the bumping is more probable. By the end of the week we will be crossing the Mackinac Bridge and entering Michigan’s southern peninsula. After a few days there we will travel with some speed around Lake Erie and meet with Chuck’s sister Laurie at Binghamton. The Labor Day weekend will find us in Schenectady for a quick visit prior to our A.T. hike in Vermont.