As we enter the holiday season, many of you may have turkey on the brain! Here at the Nature Center, we’re thinking about a different type of turkey: the turkey vulture. If you’ve visited us before, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With summer just around the corner, I would like to highlight one of my favorite birds — the turkey vulture. For me, they conjure ...

A very dry September was followed by October, which was also arid, though not as much as the previous month. These are prime mushroom times in most years, but not this year. Mushrooms in the woods and ...

BARABOO – The airspace over Devil's Lake State Park took on the appearance of a cyclone. This one, though, never touched ground and wasn't likely to be part of any weather report. In fact the spinning ...

The Nature Cat gang meets some scary looking birds. / Hal needs to get outside. It’s a crisp autumn day and Nature Cat and his pals are raking leaves in their backyard when a large creepy shadow ...

We see them every day in New Mexico soaring overhead, holding their wings in a shallow V-shape, tipping side to side causing their gray flight feathers to appear silvery, stretching from the “armpit” ...

Every summer and early fall, Mary Larson Bishop begins scanning the skies over her Sierra Foothills home outside Fresno, California. Bishop, who's 85, keeps track of when the big dark-brown birds with ...

At about 7:15 on Monday morning I settled in to a comfy spot about 20 yards from the edge of the woods. My intent was to experience the migration by sight and sound from a single spot. It was chilly, ...

With summer just around the corner, I would like to highlight one of my favorite birds — the turkey vulture. For me, they conjure up hot summer days as I watch them ride and circle in the updrafts.