by Sue Leaf | Dec 31, 2019 | Birds
Members of Wild River Audubon gathered December 14, 2019 to participate in the National Audubon Christmas Bird Count. It was the chapter’s 44th count, beginning in 1975 and continuing every year to the present. This year, 26 individuals participated either by driving...
by Sue Leaf | Nov 2, 2019 | Birds
In an Autumn when bad news abounds for bird lovers, let us rejoice in the comeback of the sandhill crane, a good-news story if there ever was one. In the mid-1800s, when settlers began moving into Minnesota in large numbers, the large, gangly birds were reasonably...
by Sue Leaf | Nov 2, 2019 | Birds, Environment
On September 19, 2019, Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, published an article reporting that North America has lost three billion birds, approximately 30 percent, since the 1970s (find the article at this link). The study...
by Sue Leaf | Sep 1, 2019 | Birds
The Tree Swallow with its snowy breast and iridescent green back feathers is one bird I welcome with joy each spring. This year I had for the first time in several years a pair of tree swallows nesting in my purple martin gourds in my yard. Several years back, there...
by Sue Leaf | Jul 1, 2019 | Birds
During the long days of mid-summer in East Central Minnesota, the ditches of our county roads are inhabited by an assemblage of notable singers, often hidden but distinctly heard. Sedge Wrens, Common Yellowthroats, Dickcissels, Savannah Sparrows all sing from the...
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