The hooded merganser is the smallest of three species of merganser found in North American and all three can be seen locally during the winter months. This small diving duck is found here throughout ...

I was watching a flock of buffleheads bob at the surface of a tidal pool that was flooded with water, it being full high tide. There is something fun about birds that shift their range with the season ...

Talk about a weird winter: almost no snow on the ground at our home, some of the lakes still haven’t frozen over, I’ve been hunting rocks in December and January, and some birds forgot to migrate ...

SOUTH NEWFANE Early April is the prime time for viewing waterfowl. The ducks are on their way north to their breeding grounds. They pause along our rivers to rest, roost, and feed. Their numbers are ...

• 600,000 Sandhill cranes gather along the Platte River in central and western Nebraska. Visit www.rowesanctuary.com. • Flocks of common redpolls have descended into Boulder County from the frozen ...

It is just a short walk from the small house that I use for an office to reach the pond that we call the Swamp House pond. In summer, there are often wetland birds such as green herons in silent ...

The flock of 30-plus common mergansers worked the edge of the rocky shoreline on an incoming tide, the first large group of mergansers to drop by this fall. As they rounded the point of a finger cove, ...

Each spring, as winter reluctantly exits from the scene, we experience a snow melt along with the ice giving way to the chilly water. The daylight quickly lengthens from 11 hours in early March and is ...

Air travel has its advantages, even today with all the hoops one must jump through to gain access to this mode of 21st century transportation. Given the distances to far flung destinations, it is in ...

My son and his fiancé were out in Seattle during Winter Break (we are all teachers). They sent back a photo for me to ID of a cool-looking bird riding the swell out in Puget Sound. I had just come ...