by Michelle Terrell | Jul 1, 2023 | Birds
On the Morning of Saturday, May 20, six birders gathered for our annual bird walk at Wild River State Park. The morning dawned cool and the first birders to descend the hill into the St. Croix River were greeted by the sight of fog in the valley. As the time arrived...
by Sue Leaf | May 16, 2023 | Birds
Some birders speak of “spark birds,” species that caught their eyes and launched them as birdwatchers. Canadian Julia Zarankin, in her wonderful memoir Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder, describes her spark. On her first outing with a Toronto bird group, she...
by Sue Leaf | Mar 13, 2023 | Birds, Environment
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...
by Michelle Terrell | Mar 13, 2023 | Birds, Environment
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,...
by Sue Leaf | Jan 6, 2023 | Birds
The sharp-eyed chickadees in our yard have something to say when I come out to fill our bird feeders. “Dee-dee-dee!” they call. “Dee-dee-dee-! Dee-dee-dee!” as they land on a branch directly over my head. As it happens, they are most likely speaking in “Chickadese”, a...
by Gary Noren | Jan 6, 2023 | Birds, Environment
One beautiful spring evening a pair of sandhill cranes waltzed through our yard with what appeared to be two baby sandhills. Gary snapped a quick photograph of the sandhill family of four as we were sitting down to dinner on our deck. We couldn’t believe our eyes when...
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