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A friend of mine recently showed a PowerPoint presentation of his experiences as a helicopter pilot in the Army National Guard and his deployment to Iraq in the late 2000s. Continue Reading

During our latest snow event, I noticed that the wild birds at my feeders were especially active. Blue jays, pine grosbeaks, common red polls, chickadees, and nuthatches were busily feeding and caching seeds. Continue Reading

Often as it is, when we watch wildlife going about their business it’s the eating business that we observe them doing: squirrels cracking acorn shells, deer grazing on hay fields, or ducks dabbling in the wetlands. Continue Reading

In the world of birds, plumage color patterns are essential to individual species survival. In fact, one of the many functions of plumage color is concealment. Continue Reading

When I lived in Fisher, Minn., just a few miles east of East Grand Forks alongside U.S. Highway 2, I remember one winter afternoon as I sat and watched from my apartment’s living room window a dozen deer in the middle of the adjacent farm field pawing through a skiff of snow. Continue Reading

The National Audubon Society and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, along with partner Bird Studies of Canada, are once again sponsoring the annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC). Continue Reading

Sometimes called a “tiger on wings” or “tiger owl”, our most recognized owl of Minnesota’s Northwoods is certainly known by numerous names. Continue Reading

For most of this early winter I’ve been content at observing the year ’round resident blue jays, white-breasted nuthatches, and black-capped chickadees, in addition to the woodpecker trio downy, hairy, and pileated woodpeckers frequent my backyard birdfeeders. Continue Reading

Last fall once again in the backcountry of a state wildlife management area north of Karlstad, Minn., I walked upon a single beaver dam for nearly its full quarter-mile length. Continue Reading