Tucked under the wing of the parent, the chick would slip in and out of the feathers to peer at its new surroundings. With one parent on the nest and the other guarding from the water, new life came ...
CENTRAL, Minnesota — From Larry Backlund's backyard, you can hear all kinds of birds. "We've got a little bit of everything," Backlund said. "We've got swans; we've got geese; we've got eagles." But ...
A pair of common loons appeared regularly for several years on a lake about 120 miles north of the Twin Cities when we lived there 20 years ago. The birds faithfully arrived each spring as soon as the ...
As they've done every year since 2003, Bob and Carole Otto approached a spring day in 2017 with the same mission. A couple of days after ice-out, on April 5, they launched a loon nesting platform onto ...
CENTRAL, Minnesota — From Larry Backlund's backyard, you can hear all kinds of birds. "We've got a little bit of everything," Backlund said. "We've got swans; we've got geese; we've got eagles." But ...