The days grow cooler, the nights are longer and folks begin to think about refilling their bird feeders that they might have let sit empty during the summer. Before you fill you feeders with fresh seed from Wild River Audubon’s birdseed sale, though, take a few...

Last spring thousands of bluebirds were lost when they encountered wet, freezing weather while migrating north through the central states. As the monitor of the bluebird trail in Wild River State Park, I wondered how many of “my” bluebirds would return to the park’s...