One third in trouble says Salazar
A first-ever from the Department of the Interior: a report titled U.S. State of the Birds. Secretary Ken Salazar is delivering this to the National Press Club today. But writer Ted Williams (no, not...
View ArticleSee what I mean?
Consistently I harp on the habitat thing on this site. I’ve said it a thousand times but it’s very true: Habitat is Everything. (an old photo I found on a thumb drive) A story the other day out of...
View ArticleJust 17 to go
Last Monday I was able to locate a Nelson’s sharp-tailed sparrow in an area of the county I had never driven, bringing the yearly county tally to 233. Just 17 left in the next six months to cross that...
View ArticleRacking up rarities
There is a home a few miles south of where I live with a yard worthy of the envy of bird watchers everywhere. So much so I described it in a column some years ago. It’s chocked full of trees,...
View ArticleWhen emotion trumps science
My buddy, biologist Doug L.,  penned a column recently decrying the old accepted practice of supplemental feeding. It spoke mainly to us in North Dakota with reference to deer and pheasants and made...
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