Nobody move! I’ve lost a contact.
The bills of starlings are turning yellow, a sign of spring.
An American dipper during the rushing water hour.
Another way of looking at winter is by looking at a house finch.
Ice fishing eagles.
This is the corner that spring is just around.
Year of the Bird.
To sleep or shave, that is the question.
A radio show in which I prattle about nature
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Chatter, natter and patter about nature on the radio.
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Forget Valentine’s Day. It’s National Bird-Feeding Month.
I’m always happy to be paid a visit by a red-winged blackbird.
The red-winged blackbird of winter is no fair-weather friend.
The Eldred Rock Lighthouse in the Lynn Canal south of Haines, Alaska.
Are you going to eat that?
My pilot and copilot were familiar figures.
Telling nature’s stories on the radio.
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They wanted it it to be a surprise.
Br’er Fox moves furtively through my yard.
An American tree sparrow comes here to enjoy our winters.
A Peeping Tom rooster pheasant.
One small step for squirrel, one giant leap for squirrelkind.
I petted this porcupine cautiously in Alberta.
Bald eagles are fine swimmers, as this one proved to me on the Chilkat River in Alaska.
It was keeping me company in Haines, Alaska.
Lipping off about nature on the airwaves.
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Nature in the newspaper
And for these seeds we are about to receive.
A squirrel in a cold yoga class.
Today’s factoid. Most motivational speakers that are house sparrows are females.
What’s a GBBC?
What’s up, Doc?
This handsome fellow will soon be calling “cow cat!”
Going down the hatch with a nuthatch.
A junco finds shelter from the wind.
A red-bellied woodpecker making suet look beautiful.
Schmoozing about nature on the radio.
A squirrel looking for its snow shovel.
A gray squirrel blending with the bark.
This American tree sparrow proved that snow on a tail makes a bird just as easy to catch as does salt on a tail.
A wonderful display at Springbrook Nature Center in Fridley, Minnesota.
Wild turkeys dressed in their finest.
I had the pleasure of speaking at a gathering of The Friends of Sax-Zim Bog—fantastic folks supporting a phenomenal place in northern Minnesota.
A junco feeds from below a platform feeder with a screened floor.
A tree continues to glow not far from Medford, Minnesota.
A blizzard can leave a bird worn to a frazzle.
A blizzard can leave a bird worn to a frazzle.
Proof that deer eat big trees.
The snow and wind have stopped, but it’s still a whiteout in the backyard.
