I was sitting on our back porch the fourth week in August, idly passing time and wondering what was in the surrounding woods. Unthinkingly, I began pishing, and was startled to immediately call in two immature American Redstarts that seemed to be traveling together. A...

Early one  morning  in June, I was cycling along Chisago County Road 20 and passed a pasture of singing grassland birds. I  heard bobolinks, savannah sparrows, a single eastern meadowlark and, I couldn’t believe my ears, a dozen chortling dickcissels. I sometimes...

While it was not the sunny solstice evening hoped for, that did not stop a group of hearty birders from enjoying a stroll around Allemansratt Park’s Anderson Peninsula on June 20th.  It was baby bird season and goslings and ducklings were parading on the lake, a...