BIRDING

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Owls and conservation go hand in hand

Owls and conservation go hand in hand Walter C. Crawford Jr. and some of his full time staff of 25 returned to Carpenter St. Croix Valley Nature Center for presentations on both Saturday and Sunday.

March 11, 2010

Wannabe Birder blog: Raptors of spring

By John Lundy , March 07, 2010

Winging a comeback

Winging a comeback Not so long ago, it took an eagle eye to spot one around Douglas County.

By By Al Edenloff , March 06, 2010

Flight Lines: Birdlife noticeably absent this winter

Take a look around the state at recent bird reports and a person can’t help but arrive at a somewhat ho-hum conclusion: There really isn’t much out there.

By Keith Corliss , March 04, 2010

Flight Lines: Birdlife noticeably absent this winter

Flight Lines: Birdlife noticeably absent this winter Take a look around the state at recent bird reports and a person can’t help but arrive at a somewhat ho-hum conclusion: There really isn’t much out there.

March 03, 2010

Wannabe Birder blog: First robin?

While March was coming in like a lamb, alert observers were spotting robins on Park Point.

By John Lundy , March 02, 2010

Kestrel displays great spirit, speed and swiftness

A few Aprils ago while standing in my backyard looking across the pond, I heard the high-pitched “ki-ki-ki” calls of a kestrel.

March 01, 2010

Kestrel displays great spirit, speed and swiftness

A few Aprils ago while standing in my backyard looking across the pond, I heard the high-pitched “ki-ki-ki” calls of a kestrel.

February 28, 2010

Blane Klemek column: The raven is a special bird

Ravens. There’s something very special about this large black bird so similar looking to its smaller cousin the American crow, yet so very different. They’re a symbol of the Northland’s cold and snow-laden wintertime coniferous forests –their calls beckoning, resonating, haunting.

February 21, 2010

Buying bird stamps good way to give back

Over the past decade I’ve read numerous accounts on the rising popularity of watchable wildlife, which is a more inclusive and contemporary terminology than simply birdwatching.

By Doug Leier, North Dakota Outdoors , February 19, 2010

Buying bird stamps good way to give back

Buying bird stamps good way to give back Over the past decade I’ve read numerous accounts on the rising popularity of watchable wildlife, which is a more inclusive and contemporary terminology than simply birdwatching.

By Doug Leier, North Dakota Outdoors , February 19, 2010

Leier: Observation of wildlife is all around us

Over the past decade, I have read numerous accounts on the rising popularity of watchable wildlife, which is a more inclusive and contemporary terminology than simply birdwatching.

February 18, 2010

Blane Klemek column: European starlings are successful competitors

Many years ago when I was employed as the manager of Wetlands, Pines and Audubon Sanctuary, a wildlife refuge and environ-mental education center near Warren, Minn., some of my duties included building, installing, monitoring, and maintaining bluebird and wood duck nest boxes. I especially enjoyed monitoring the structures to see if any boxes were occupied by nesting birds, squirrels, raptors or what have you.

February 14, 2010

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Could we see moas again?

  It really never mentions it in the story. But I have to believe the current flowing under the written words is flowing in that direction. From Oneindia comes the report based on a paper foun

Posted by: kcorliss on Mar 10, 2010 at 11:18 PM | Wildwings

"Countable" one day?

(California condor, USFWS) Ever since the last wild California condor was trapped back in the 1980s there has been a federal effort to breed and reintroduce this, the largest soaring bird in North

Posted by: kcorliss on Mar 10, 2010 at 2:24 PM | Wildwings

Powerlines + fog = a lethal mix

In 1980, The Fog debuted with little or no fanfare. It was a semi-scary movie done by John Carpent

Posted by: kcorliss on Mar 9, 2010 at 12:36 PM | Wildwings

Broken promise. But for a good reason.

Many months ago I made a commitment to entirely shun any entries regarding West Nile virus or bird flu. I tire of those stories quite quickly, they being the same old crap rehashed and retold, and fo

Posted by: kcorliss on Mar 8, 2010 at 3:52 PM | Wildwings

Stuck duck...and other weird avian tales

Folks must be tiring of listening to the latest drivel on the health care bill. Either that or the news cycle must just be getting low. How else to explain the rash of strange bird stories peppering loca

Posted by: kcorliss on Mar 8, 2010 at 3:09 PM | Wildwings

Hints abound, but nothing yet.

For the first time in months the street in front of my house can actually be driven on without touching ice and snow. Really. The middle of the street is bare of the frozen stuff. Just the last fe

Posted by: kcorliss on Mar 8, 2010 at 11:39 AM | Wildwings

Trouble in Clarksville

(red-winged blackbird) Dead birds typically attract little attention from the public. We see them, after all, quite regularly. Whether they are lying flat along a roadway or beneath a picture wind

Posted by: kcorliss on Mar 2, 2010 at 3:02 PM | Wildwings

R.I.P. Mr. Cross

I didn't know this guy. In fact I had never heard of him. But today I ran across an article on NPR.com describing a small facet of Theodore Cross's life, that of bird photographer. Just who was he? Theodore Cross pursued many passions over his 86 years: He was a real estate lawyer, a publisher, a

Posted by: kcorliss on Mar 2, 2010 at 2:42 PM | Wildwings
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