Just as I was about to take a photo of the  changes inside the nesting box in the predawn

  A nifty rite of spring occurred last night in the Greenway at the Celery Farm — the courtship ritual

   My definition of a good morning is a nice sunrise and the sight of Mrs. Ace back home in

    Among the ring-necked ducks, hooded  mergansers and other waterfowl that have been returning to the Celery Farm by

       Nothing like yesterday’s beautiful sunrise to kick courting season into high gear.    Besides the screech owl

   Last night, at twilight’s end, Mrs. Ace flew.   On recent evenings, she (and at this point I do

  After the frenetic dusk action earlier this week, yesterday evening was so dull that I got a little nervous.

   Noted on a morning run in Ramsey this morning…    One of nature’s ways of saying that winter is

     Sometime in the past few weeks, nature played a trick on me. It appears that a new owl,

  If you haven’t gotten a good look at a bald eagle, the time is now and the place is