I spent too much time this past weekend trying to get a great action shot of the red-winged blackbirds at my neighbor’s pond. You know how sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees? In this ...

Cattails seem to be the proverbial thorn in the side of landowners with either wetlands or ponds. But are cattails worthy of the distaste they receive? As with anything in nature, cattails have a ...

Marshes ringed with cattails provide entertaining viewing opportunities in spring, when redwing blackbirds, yellow-headed blackbirds, Canada geese, mallards and many other bird species are nesting ...

MAYS LANDING — The “pond” behind Oakcrest High School may look like a water retention basin. But for students in David Jungblut’s Research Science class it has been a real-life science experiment in ...

Canada geese honked and quacked back and forth, appearing to be playing a game in the pond that I clearly wasn't invited to join. Any time I left my natural blind of cattails and brush, the geese and ...

I spent too much time this past weekend trying to get a great action shot of the red-winged blackbirds at my neighbor’s pond. You know how sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees? In this ...