Articles

Seeds for Change

Fifty people turned out on a dark January evening to listen to retired middle school teacher Pat Collins speak on the importance of native plants as food sources in the food web. With humans occupying so much of the earth’s surface and modifying it for their own...

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Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis

The first bird Tom and I saw for the Christmas Bird Count this year was a bedraggled Red-tailed Hawk, hunched over at the top of a large tree off County 9. It looked miserable in the rain. Its head feathers were wet and ruffled. The Red-tailed Hawk is one of the most...

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The Christmas Bird Count

On December 16th, Wild River Audubon will participate in the North American Christmas Bird Count (CBC) for the 47th year. Our CBC is the longest data-collecting endeavor in East-Central Minnesota in the history of the state. And it is not a government program, it is...

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