by Michelle Terrell | Oct 10, 2023 | Birds, Environment
If you were to grab your favorite bird field guide, turn to the description of the Limpkin (Aramus guarauna), and consult the range map, you would find the distribution of this species within the United States limited to Florida and adjoining portions of Georgia. It...
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 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...
by Joe Sausen | Jan 6, 2023 | Birds, Environment
Our Wild River Audubon Chapter had 33 people involved with counting birds in our area on December17th during our 47th annual Christmas Bird Count, CBC. Sixteen people counted birds coming to their feeders, while the others travelled within the...
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...
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