Leslie O’Rourke is a local nature photographer known as the Swan Whisperer of Belleville after a July 2023 profile by ...

Plus, readers ask about goldfinches nesting and eating, starlings making holes in lawns and swans appearing in local waters.

Last week’s Pique talked about the sightings of a lone trumpeter swan on Green Lake signifying the start of spring. On Friday evening, March 14, I was photographing the sunset and was graced with ...

The Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin is offering 278 field trips in 2025. The outings run from May to October across the state. Registration opens April 8.

In a few weeks, some 200 Minnesota birders will flock to the Salt Lake Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Lac qui Parle County ...

The next day, after the heavy overnight rain, the rivers were in full spring flood mode. When hiking the Mavis Trail, the ...

A red-breasted merganser eats a crayfish in this photo take last month by Ann Brokelman. By ANN AND ERIK BROKELMAN Today’s ...

Our resident bird watcher and photographer Will Stenberg was busy this week along the St. Louis River in and around Jay Cooke State Park. On April 1 there were trumpeter swans at Chambers Grove Park ...

The Ely Echo weekly newspaper and its companion pieces - North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into ...

Discover the best spots to view birds, like the Bald Eagle, American White Pelican, Trumpeter Swan, Eurasian Tree Sparrow and many more! $5/person with leaders, chaperones, bus drivers and/or teachers ...