by Sue Leaf | Jan 14, 2025 | Birds
It is always thrilling to see a shrike, even in bloody encounters. We once came upon one on a Sunday morning as we arrived home from church. The predator was pursuing our male cardinal around in the shrubs adjacent to the birdfeeder. Wings were fluttering, feathers...
by Michelle Terrell | Jan 14, 2025 | Birds, Environment
The 49th Wild River Audubon Christmas Bird Count was held on Saturday, December 21. This year marked the 125th Anniversary of the first Christmas Bird Count, which is the longest-running formal citizen science project in the nation. It was an overcast and cold day...
by Sue Leaf | Jan 14, 2025 | Birds
“Hey, you guys,” Marian said in her stereotypic accent straight from Queens, NYC. “Where’d all the robins go?” Several of us young Zoology graduate students had gathered in the hallway, sipping coffee and catching up. It was early October. Marian had been in the...
by Sue Leaf | Sep 13, 2024 | Birds, Environment
Thirteen years ago, a violent storm with a massive tornado tore through North Minneapolis, leaving a swath of destruction in its wake. Numerous people lost trees, had their roofs removed, or their homes destroyed. Walls were reduced to matchsticks. Among the...
by Sue Leaf | Jul 7, 2024 | Birds, Environment
Three hundred miles northwest of Chisago County, a birding opportunity beckons. Each spring, the great migration of waterfowl and shorebirds passes over the Dakotas, with weary birds dropping into marshes to rest and refuel while in transit to summer nesting grounds....
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