Fall Dabblers
Look below the surface, and you’ll see a different world. That is what dabbling ducks do when tipping their heads forward to feed in the shallows. It was a case […]
Look below the surface, and you’ll see a different world. That is what dabbling ducks do when tipping their heads forward to feed in the shallows. It was a case […]
I know it’s always said that spring is the time of renewal. But I think fall it a time of rethinking and retooling. It’s the time rake leaves and paint […]
Sometimes when I walk I’m so absorbed in my own thoughts, that I fail to make better use of my eyes and ears. Yes, I can’t fail to smell the […]
The season of blustery winds shaking bare trees and blowing branches across snow covered trails is passing at last. This winter was a roller coaster of weather warming up and […]
The sunny weather drew me to the prairies, marshes and ponds to pass groves of trees and over bridges. The warmer weather has also drawn an increasing variety of birds. […]
Winter has grabbed on hold again with two icy hands to remind me it’s not gone yet. I sit on a tree stump watching a Mallard drake and hen race […]
The crispness of winter chills the air as animals, nature and I await the Spring. Any sunbeams are a welcome oasis of warmth in the frosty landscape. I watch ducks […]
“There is… a deeper sense of understanding, accomplishment and downright pleasure that accompanies the ability to look at a knot of birds on the horizon and say with conviction, ‘Mallards,’ […]
As summer edges to the end of its season, I notice more ducks filling up a pond as I walk past. They’re stopping off for a watery rest along a […]
I see lots of waterfowl on lakes, canals and rivers here when I’m hiking. But on this hot day with summer temperatures and humidity, that ducks made this branch filled […]
Icy, frozen below zero degrees temperature setting temperatures…a Midwest winter. Yet, people are out ice fishing, sledding and there are some out swimming. There not members of the polar bear […]