Lainie Hiller, Laporte, captured this image of a varied thrush which has spent part of the winter in her yard. The varied thrush usually winters in western North America but individual birds regularly wander east, occasionally finding their way to northern Minnesota.
Submitted photo
I observed my first oriole on May 14 in Detroit Lakes. The telltale whistle of the bird alerted me, and I began searching for the beautiful orange and black plumage ...
While turkey hunting recently near Detroit Lakes, I’ve enjoyed the chorus of frogs emanating from the recently “thawed out” wetlands. Some basins still have ice, but most are ice-free now. ...
When I was employed as the manager and director of the Wetlands, Pines and Prairie Audubon Sanctuary (now called the Audubon Center of the Red River Valley and Omdahl Arboretum), ...
Where there are wetlands and cattails, there will be red-winged blackbirds. Since 2008, my first red-winged blackbird observation has generally occurred in early to mid-March. Not this year! In fact, ...
