Birding the Prairie Potholes of North Dakota

Three hundred miles northwest of Chisago County, a birding opportunity beckons. Each spring, the great migration of waterfowl and shorebirds passes over the Dakotas, with weary birds dropping into marshes to rest and refuel while in transit to summer nesting grounds....

May Bird Walk Report

Thunderstorms rumbled just before dawn on Saturday, May 18, but the rain had passed by 7:30 am when birders gathered at Wild River State Park for our chapter’s annual Dayle and Bonnie DeClercq Memorial Bird Walk.  The morning’s rain put a damper on the number of...