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

      Yesterday began with a mostly frozen lake and a pair of swans in the distance.   It

    Everything changed with Ace the Screech Owl last night.   The first sign was around 6:30 p.m., with

  As the hours of daylight grow longer, Ace is spending more time in his box during the day.  

  My wife and I did a quick tour of the Celery Farm Natural Area by cross-country skis — an