Ah, Spring. There is nothing more satisfying to me than planting- flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs- anything. Not that I have any great skill at it, and I know I don’t […]
Ripples 4-2-15
There have been some large waves of birds migrating north lately, especially last Wednesday night. Thursday morning brought new songs to the yard – more and more robins, phoebes, yellow-bellied […]
Ripples 3-5-15
Twenty years ago, about 1,600 people participated in the first Breeding Bird Atlas done in Wisconsin. Wisconsin has long been a leader in the fields of ornithology and citizen science, […]
Ripples 2-19-15
Here we are, late in February and still in the dead of winter it seems. By now we’ve become pretty good at adapting our behavior to deal with the cold- […]