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     Yesterday I got a call from the avian rehabilitation/education center where I used to be on staff and now volunteer.  There was a report of an injured Bald Eagle about twenty miles from my home.  I grabbed a blanket, large cardboard box, a net, a pair of gloves, and headed to the location.  I met the helpful homeowner at his rural central Wisconsin home. 

     He had seen the eagle along the road in his front yard, but the bird had hopped away, through deep snow, down toward a…

     As part of a local bird club's celebration of and participation in International Migratory Bird Day on Saturday, May 14, my wife and I assisted with a county-wide bird count.  Our section, in the southwestern part of Marathon County in northcentral Wisconsin, included a state wildlife area, county park along a flowage, and rural forests and farmlands.  Gray skies and cool temperatures did not hinder our efforts, nor did they seem to adversely affect the number of birds we saw and…

     As we have done for the past several years, my wife and I participated in a Wisconsin/Minnesota owl monitoring program.  This year we completed two different routes, each approximately ten miles long, with ten five-minute stops (one each mile) to listen for owls.  Our German Shepherd Dog came along this time and during each survey was attentive but absolutely quiet in the back of the vehicle.

     Our first route took us to Forest County in northern Wisconsin.  The constellations…

In early November 2010 my wife Evie and I flew to Juneau.  From there, we took the Alaska Marine Highway ferry along the Lynn Canal to Haines, about seventy miles.  The weather was clear and the views of the snowy mountains along the way were spectacular.  We arrived in Haines the day before the official Bald Eagle Festival was set to begin, checked into our motel, and rented a car to explore on our own.  We drove out of Haines to the northwest along the Chilkat River and stopped at several…