“The oldest task in human history is to live

on a piece of land without spoiling it.”

- Aldo Leopold

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Bird 8/5/21 Bird 8/5/21

53 ~ Taoist predator control

Raccoons have been snooping around the hen coop of late, ransacking the chicken feed and making some attempts to dig under the wire of the pen…

Bird 7/21/21 Bird 7/21/21

52 ~ Guest column!

I love the mind and writing of Matt Geiger…

Bird 7/7/21 Bird 7/7/21

I recently visited my daughter, Alonda, in Brooklyn, New York, where she moved about a year ago. She has a weekly gig there, to which I tagged along…

Bird 6/8/21 Bird 6/8/21

In the language of falconry, a “brancher” is a young, nearly full-grown hawk that is in transition…

Bird 5/31/21 Bird 5/31/21

This year the month of May has been a rough one for the gardens, both very dry and cold…

Bird 5/22/21 Bird 5/22/21

This is the season for down (just not in jackets). I am most pleased to relay that I first noticed some a couple of weeks ago on the eagle nest…

Bird 5/12/21 Bird 5/12/21

A remarkable feature of the Wisconsin Driftless Area is Native American rock art, nearly all of which was created before European contact…

Bird 5/10/21 Bird 5/10/21

Bird 5/6/21 Bird 5/6/21

Welcome to early May, the first flush of abundance…

Bird 4/24/21 Bird 4/24/21

The 2021 maple syrup season is now in the rearview mirror…

Bird 4/2/21 Bird 4/2/21

Bird 4/1/21 Bird 4/1/21

Extraordinary. Just when I thought I’d seen everything on this 880 acre patch of woods and fields...