Each year when the first snow flies many species head south for their annual migration. Arizona is a favorite destination for Montanans. Some prefer Florida, California or the Caribbean. But, what ...

In late autumn, cold air masses come barreling down from the Canadian Arctic like an atmospheric avalanche, bringing with them a visitor from the North: the rough-legged hawk (Buteo lagopus). Its ...

As soon as it is light, birds descend upon the feeders. The conclave of cardinals — always the first to arrive in the dim dawn, and last to leave, as dusk turns into the dark of night — grows into a ...

Jeff picked me up at 7:30 a.m. and we spent the day zig-zagging county roads between Loveland and Prewitt Reservoir. He does the driving, which frees me to search the ground and sky and all the ...

The rough-legged hawk, this week’s bird of the week, is an aspirational bird. In other words, I haven’t seen one this season, but I hope to – although I don’t expect to see one, at least without some ...

In late autumn, cold air masses come barreling down from the Canadian Arctic like an atmospheric avalanche, bringing with them a visitor from the North: the rough-legged hawk (Buteo lagopus). Its ...