by Sue Leaf | Apr 7, 2022 | Birds
Tom and I were picnicking in Yellowstone National Park when we were joined by a big black bird, a raven with menacing beak and hunched shoulders. It flew to a nearby tree and watched intently as we fished out the crackers, sliced thick slabs of Munster cheese from a...
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 Joe Sausen | Jan 9, 2022 | Birds, Environment
Forty-three species seen!The Wild River Audubon Chapter had 28 people counting birds in our area on December 18th during our 46th annual Christmas Bird Count, CBC. Eleven people counted birds coming to their bird feeders, while the others travelled within the 15-mile...
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 Gloria Peterson | Sep 29, 2021 | Birds, Environment
Last spring thousands of bluebirds were lost when they encountered wet, freezing weather while migrating north through the central states. As the monitor of the bluebird trail in Wild River State Park, I wondered how many of “my” bluebirds would return to the park’s...
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