Imagine 10 nearly round white eggs snug in a hollow tree, lined with soft feathers plucked from the mother’s breast. The hen carefully tends the two-inch eggs for about a month until the chicks hatch.

I’m convinced, Hooded Mergansers are simply Wood Ducks that have been corrupted by the Dark Side. Similar in size and sharing a proclivity for nesting in tree cavities, the bill of the hoodie shrivels ...

Signs of spring start materializing come mid-February, especially in mild winters like this one. Our first “wildflower,” skunk cabbage, bursts from spring-fed mires. Buds begin to pop on elms and ...

The hooded merganser is a specialty of J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge. It nests elsewhere in North Dakota, including the Turtle Mountains and Devils Lake, and it occurs along the Red River ...

You might not expect to find much of interest in the wildlife department as you're bombing down I-90, but you'd be surprised. Both roads have been quite bountiful over the years, and though I find the ...

The best advice to find hooded mergansers used to be, get yourself to a pond in the woods. This season, you can just as well look in one of the Grand Forks retention ponds, part of the flood control ...

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 ...

During a recent winter storm, we took a short drive along the Henry’s Fork at Mack’s Inn in Island Park. We could see lots of birds from the highway and wanted to see what we could add to Cathy’s ...

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 ...

One of North America’s most distinctive diving ducks is back in our area for its usual late fall appearance. While scoping out the flyways and byways of our city for nature news this week (within my ...