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2 weeks ago |
bemidjipioneer.com | Blane Klemek
There’s something special about Minnesota’s wrens. In total, we have four species of wrens that make their seasonal homes here. Wren songs, especially that of the male house wren, are beautiful and boisterous. Combined with their boldness, these tiny species of birds are energetic and fearless. At this writing, outside an open window, the resident male house wren is singing his incessant trill.
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3 weeks ago |
bemidjipioneer.com | Blane Klemek
Earlier this spring, I was called into action to save a loon. Occasionally, loons land on, well, land. Theories include that loons sometimes mistake parking lots and highways for waterways. Or perhaps some loons are forced to land in fields and terrestrial locations because of other factors, such as fatigue or injury. Loons are not designed for earth-bound locomotion. It isn’t that loons can’t travel terrestrially, it’s that they are slow and not very efficient.
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1 month ago |
bemidjipioneer.com | Blane Klemek
By now, everyone knows that migrant songbirds and other migrant wild birds have returned to our neck of the woods. Whether you live on the prairie and are enjoying the songs of meadowlarks, are nestled deep in the forest surrounded by vocalizing ovenbirds or live in town amongst an assortment of avian songsters, the songs and calls of birds of every feather are omnipresent once again. What a wonderful time of year it is.
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1 month ago |
bemidjipioneer.com | Blane Klemek
Up close and personal encounters with blue jays are always a treat for me. The skittish species rarely gives us opportunities to view them at close range, so I was thrilled when one such bird recently afforded me the chance to watch it going about its natural activities, unaware of me standing a few feet away. Intent on foraging, the blue jay was focused on hunting for insects.
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1 month ago |
bemidjipioneer.com | Blane Klemek
Twenty-something odd years ago, observing a cottontail rabbit here in the Northland was an oddity, especially in the countryside and forest. It seems there were always cottontail rabbits in towns, but I’d be hard pressed to remember noticing them inhabiting northern Minnesota’s vast forests. Not so, today.
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