birding

My hunting trip to northwest Colorado's Rocky Mountains has become an annual event. My three partners and I experienced a wide range of weather events during this year's late October...

Walking alongside cold-water mountain creeks during my recent Colorado mule deer hunting trip, I couldn't help but think from time to time that I wasn't the only hunter hunting deer...

"There goes a garbled halfwit!" Astonished, I looked over at my friend standing a few yards away pointing toward the sky. I followed an imaginary line beyond his index finger...

Though only a population estimate, it is nevertheless difficult to believe that only 500,000 white-tailed deer existed in these United States in the early 1900s. Today's whitetail population is estimated...

I remember the first time I ever observed a coyote in the wild. I was deer hunting on an early November morning from a deer stand that my Dad and...

Last month, I spent a few hours each evening for seven days nestled within the limbs of an old bur oak tree in a northwestern Minnesota woodland. Surrounded by other...

I recently enjoyed the delightful antics of one of my favorite woodland and upland gamebirds, the American woodcock. After finishing an evening grouse hunt and loading my gear into the...

The moose is the largest member of the deer family. And though Minnesota is home to this remarkable mammal, the northern-tier states are really at the southern boundary of moose...

As many of you know, I spent the summers of 1997-99 on the rolling, prairie pothole country of North Dakota working on various wildlife research projects. At the summits of...

The advent of the large round hay bales that are so common a sight scattered on fields throughout American farms and ranches, have also become favorite perching sites for a...

There was a time in my life that I lived and worked in downtown Chicago. European starlings, house sparrows and pigeons were the most widespread city-dwelling birds that I encountered,...

The two summers I spent wading in wetlands throughout North Dakota's prairie potholes were two of the most interesting and rewarding summers of my life. The work, if one could...

My office building is in Bemidji, adjacent to Bemidji State University and the university's baseball and recreation fields. During the spring and summer while working at my desk, I frequently...

Have you ever seen or heard a cuckoo bird? Chances are good that you haven't. In fact, many people don't even realize that Minnesota is home to the black-billed cuckoo...

A short time ago I received a very nice e-mail from Marian Bleth, a life-long Bemidji resident, now residing in Grand Rapids, Minn. She wrote to tell me of a...