Years ago, the first stop for us on the Christmas Bird Count was at Glenn and Elsie Reed’s farm on County Road 20. They fed birds from an enormous column feeder crafted to resemble a traffic light. In those years in which Glenn got his deer, he also hung the ribcage...

We have had an unexpected avian visitor this winter in our Audubon chapter area.  A female Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) is wintering on the St. Croix River below the Highway 8 bridge that connects Taylors Falls, Minnesota with St. Croix Falls,...