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I urge you to blow the rust off winter and get out and enjoy. You don't have to have a spring turkey license, but if you do the season starts April 12 and runs through May 18 so there’s plenty of opportunity to call in a wild turkey...

I wasn’t in a me, myself and I mode. But I was not expecting company either. Not one other boat on the lake. Gulls flew and I saw the occasional crow. Mrs. Mallard had her babies out for a swim. My stringer was half full, so was my growling stomach...

For the second year, a coalition of conservation groups and agencies have joined forces to make bird migration safer by making Minneapolis and St. Paul a bit darker, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Watch this short video to learn more...

The reason for this peculiar behavior – a disjointed wing – then became more apparent. It struggled with a few flaps of its wings and pushes from its feet, from fence, to swing set and then onto the top of a garage...

After I fixed the bear damaged bird feeder I filled it with a mixed bird seed. My intent is to feed the birds. The feeder sits empty all summer. I typically don’t reload until I think yogi is in for his long winter nap. The bears, when they wander through my yard with there super sniffers probe, then with more power than I can imagine, snap off the feeder or break the post hosting my feeder. I’m just trying to feed some birds...

Above my head is a five gallon pail swinging from a deer gambrel. The pail should be full of deer tallow saved from the November deer season. My daughter and I slice off the creamy fat in long thick chunks, and...

Fall is approaching, which means birds will begin their annual trek to warmer climates for the winter. When will the fall migration get underway?

How do pheasants and other birds survive the long, cold Minnesota winters?