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...

The last sloppy snowstorm of the past winter fell in late March and brought with it an unusual visitor to our yard: an American Woodcock. Woodcocks are the oddest-looking birds, with a rather dumpy body, a long dagger of a bill, and big, dark eyes set far back in it...