Discover Nature

Yesterday, my sister, my mom, and I went looking for snowy owls. There have been a number of sightings in and around the Twin Cities this wi...

This weekend, bird-watchers across the world will be counting birds as part of a citizen science project looking at bird populations. All yo...

Yesterday, one of the Dodge naturalists was walking in the woods and spotted an unusual pattern on the snow. She brought a group of us out t...

I consider myself a bird watcher. I have multiple feeders in my backyard and am able to recognize many birds. When I'm outside, it's...

Normally in this blog I talk about the things I see around me in the natural world. Observation is a skill I'm always working at improvi...

During the winter, the nature center teaches a class about how animals deal with winter. Life in the Cold helps students understand that al...

For years, one of the feeders in my backyard was a fortress -virtually squirrel-proof. It sits in the center of the yard, far enough away fr...