Spring is a wonderful time of year. Especially right after the thick ice of winter melts off the ponds and small lakes. And just like magic, as soon as the water is open, the ducks show up. For me, ...

It’s May, and my yard is lively with a marathon of nest building. Bluebirds are stuffing nest boxes with grasses and pine needles; the phoebe has created a cradle of moss in her usual spot under my ...

The male wood duck is one of the most beautiful birds on Earth. We’re lucky we can see them almost any day of the week, any time of the year, in Kathryn Albertson Park. They love to hang out under the ...

The bright sunshine of spring highlights the spectrum of birds in their mating plumage. The most striking in our area has to be the wood duck, a bird with colors that dazzle and a choice for nest ...

Dana Kunze is a champion diver who has held several world records for high dives of more than 170 feet. But that height is practically nothing for a wood duck chick! Many years ago, when I first saw a ...

Q: Well, it happened again. I have a wood duck nesting box near a pond, at the end of my property, and I saw a wood duck coming and going. But for the 10 th year in a row I missed the day the ...

I remember as a kid heading toward a forest pond near my grandfather's farm. A toy duck decorated in a fresh coat of paint glimmered like a rainbow. I wanted to grab the toy, but it leaped off the ...

HORICON – On this mid-February day, Horicon Marsh was locked in ice and covered with snow. Not a bird or mammal stirred in sight. But the conditions were perfect to open some of the marsh's secrets.

David Watkins doesn't consider himself much of a duck hunter. He's taken two before, and would be OK if he never took another. But after seeing a few wood ducks fly near his property in York County, ...

With its swanky pompadour and rainbow-hued plumage, the wood duck looks like it’s part peacock, part Elvis impersonator. But you won’t catch this Michigan native flashing its feathers in a tropical ...