The last few days I have been enjoying the smell of the air from the fragrant basswood that is now blooming, and which is a big attractant of pollinators.
We're joining forces to relate the curious tale of two butterfly species. One is a long-distance migrant, the other a stay-at-home local. Though they have many great differences, they share on curious thing in common. Each year, we first see them...
We went from winter to summer this spring, and now it feels like we are skipping fall. The first frost came about two weeks late, giving us a long growing season, but the snow came almost a month early and took the leaves with it. The wind is now...
The leaves are starting to turn, acorns are falling and the garden is producing well. The early hunting seasons are under way, and soon small game and archery deer season follows. It's time to fill the freezer for winter. There will be plenty of ...
It's the hot, muggy and buggy part of summer -- and the last few years a time of drought, but not this year. We have had timely rains, and it shows. There are lots of berries and fruit this year. I have already picked pails of blueberries and see...
Everything is happening so fast. We went from a long winter where we saw a near record late ice-out to a summer where I am starting to see stuff near record early. In my 22 years of records, I have never seen such a rapid change, such as how quic...
Amazing what a difference a week makes -- from near knee-deep snow to fire danger, from driving on the lakes to not being able to walk out, from shoveling snow to turning the soil over in the garden.
Saturday, Jan. 20 The red-bellied woodpecker is a fairly new resident to this area from the south. One visited my bird feeder. It is the first I have had stay more than a day or two, so it appears to have included us in its home range. Sunday, Ja...
Editor's Note: Growing up on 11th Crow Wing Lake in Akeley, Dallas Hudson spent his boyhood exploring the surrounding public lands and waters. Since 1996, he has tracked some 500 species -- birds, animals, insects, plants -- in his daily journals...
Growing up on 11th Crow Wing Lake in Akeley, Dallas Hudson spent his boyhood exploring the surrounding public lands and waters. An outdoorsman all of his life, "I've always been in the outdoors looking at everything," he said. "My escape was the ...
