by Sue Leaf | Jan 9, 2022 | Birds, Environment
The shadows were growing long and our attention spans were waning as we neared the end of the day of our Christmas Bird Count, 2021, Tom and I had been at it for seven hours, but before we called it a day, there was one more road to drive down—315th Street, less than...
by Sue Leaf | Dec 12, 2021 | Birds, Environment
In 1936, Dr. T. S. Roberts and his assistant, Walter Breckenridge, were driving on the road between Minneapolis and Madison, Wisconsin, heading to the American Ornithologists Union annual meeting in Pittsburgh, when they beheld a magnificent sight. A large flock of...
by Sue Leaf | Dec 12, 2021 | Birds, Environment
The days grow cooler, the nights are longer and folks begin to think about refilling their bird feeders that they might have let sit empty during the summer. Before you fill you feeders with fresh seed from Wild River Audubon’s birdseed sale, though, take a few...
by Sue Leaf | Sep 29, 2021 | Birds
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...
by Sue Leaf | Jul 6, 2021 | Birds
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...
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