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 ...

LAKETON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — With rising temperatures across West Michigan this week it’s made for tough sledding at the Muskegon Winter Sports Complex. There is hope on the horizon with falling ...

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 ...

BRAINERD — It wasn’t what I was hoping to find as I wandered my property on a cold January day. Atop the snow lay a pile of feathers, grouse feathers to be exact. I knew the remains were that of Ruff, ...

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