August Sunset over Wacouta Bay There was a ten day period in mid-August when numerous air quality health alerts were issues for most of...

Dense Fog on the River After experiencing abnormally high water levels approaching 12 feet all of June and the first half of July, the...

During the spring migration, I observed and heard the trumpeting calls of numerous sandhill cranes overhead. Since green-up in mid-May,...

Purple Prairie Clover and Orange Coneflower For the past several years, there have been some very dedicated residents and members of the...

Peregrine Falcon Photo Credit: Dudrey Smith With the...

Lighthouse Island The first sign of green-up among our local native trees are the willows on Lighthouse Island on the Wisconsin side of...

Canvasback, Redheads and Scaup With the record setting snowfall/blizzard of April 14th and 15th, a large number of migrating songbirds...

Weeping Willow One of the first signs of spring color change was the greenish-yellow hue of this weeping willow in the wetlands of the...

Three Among Many In my previous post, I mentioned that deer tend to yard up in sizable groups near a reliable source of food in the...

Deer Trails on Rattlesnake Bluff As we have experienced a more typical winter with below zero temperatures overnight these past few...

Upper Bay at Colvill Park During two recent stretches of very cold weather; one the end of December and one in early January, I observed...

Sea Smoke The cold weather we have experienced the past ten days is a welcomed change reminding me of what a typical Minnesota winter...

Sunrise over Rattlesnake Bluff At sunrise the earth is rotating towards the sun. As we approach the winter solstice, the northern...

Lone White Pelican After spending time deer hunting and visiting our daughter and granddaughter in North Carolina these past couple...

Wacouta Fall Colors According to the Minnesota DNR website on October 20th, leaf color changes in Goodhue County were at about 50%. This...

Raspberries Despite the fact that earlier in the summer iridescent copper and green colored Japanese beetles nearly defoliated my...

New England Asters As we encountered the fall equinox this past Friday, There is further evidence along the Rattlesnake Bluff Trail that...

Monarch and Blazing Star During the past couple weeks, I have observed more monarchs butterflies than in quite sometime. On Sunday...

Ruby- Throated Hummingbird For most of the summer, we have had very few hummingbirds at our nectar feeders. That all changed about two...

White Pelicans With the more normal summer river levels of the past couple weeks, I have received numerous local reports of large flocks...