Unfamiliar Neighbors—Rare but Near
Hoary redpolls and boreal chickadees can sometimes be spotted among their more common cousins They descended on my bird feeders like a blizzard, fluttering from...
Michael Furtman
Winter Photography
We Northlanders are a hardy bunch, and so are the critters that share our region. I’m sure we all have friends and relatives that live...
A Winter Waterfowl Wonderland
It may seem strange that the Northern Wilds would be a place to see and photograph waterfowl in winter. After all, don’t they migrate south...
Autumn in the Marsh
Hunters know that one of the best places to be in autumn is in the marsh. Why? Because in the fall, marshes provide migration stops...
Autumn migration along the shore
It’s not just geese and hawks North Shore—When you think about autumn migrations along the North Shore, the well-known stream of raptors skirting the big...
Capturing the Canoe Country
It may come as a surprise to many people, but the Boundary Waters and Quetico are really not great locations for wildlife photography. Why? These...
The writers are coming: OWAA Conference
Duluth—The writers are coming, the writers are coming. And videographers, photographers, artists, radio and TV personalities…get the idea? The Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA)...
Sea ducks on the unsalted sea
North Shore—Just about everyone is familiar with two groups of ducks that frequent the Northern Wilds region—the puddle ducks, typified by mallards, and diving ducks,...