birding

While enjoying a late season deer and grouse hunt in the rolling hardwood hills of Aitkin County recently, I watched a flock of Bohemian waxwings descend upon a fruit-filled crabapple...

The 31st annual Bemidji Christmas Bird Count will begin at 7 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 19, at the Minnesota Nice Café, 414 Beltrami Ave. N.W. The event is part of the...

Across the lake into the darkness of a moonless sky, I can barely make out the faint yellow glow of someone else's campfire. Mine is behind me, about 50 feet,...

I've been gone so much from my home over the past month and a half that I sort of forgot about my fine feathered friends. Poor things; I haven't filled...

Within a majority of Minnesota's bountiful lakes, rivers and streams are many different species of fish. Including some recent introductions of non-native species, Minnesota has probably more than 150 different...

Not long ago, while enjoying a stroll in the woods, I noticed a dark blob in the canopy of a small birch tree. At first I thought it was a...

One of the simple pleasures of hunting in the mountains is choosing the perfect place in which to eat and rest. The satisfaction I gain from breathtaking mountain vistas is...

My grandfather Clifford Greenwood once had a small room in his house that he and Grandmother called "the den." It was a room filled with antiques, old lanterns, deer heads,...

The feet of birds can tell you a lot about how a particular species of bird lives its life. Some feet are for swimming, some feet are for clutching, some...

Many years ago on a late summer day, I watched a curious-looking bird hovering above the dead grass alongside a woodland that I had departed. Gray in plumage and about...

October's here, leaves are changing colors and many of the birds we've enjoyed watching and listening to all summer long have either left Northern Minnesota or are about to. Although...

There's definitely something ominous about the appearance of yellowjackets and hornets. While the potential of being stung probably crosses all of our minds whenever we encounter the insects, these relatives...

I can still see the look on the man's face. He was raking his lawn while I was peddling my bicycle down the street of my Coon Rapids neighborhood. I...

Edward Abbey once wrote of the turkey vulture; "Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: no one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a...

While dining recently inside a fast-food restaurant, I happened to glance out the window I was sitting beside. My old truck, which was parked nearby, was suddenly the center of...