When most people think of ducks, they probably think of birds that quack and live on water. Well, most ducks don’t quack and some nest in trees! Let’s take a close look at two of our local tree ...

It was a rainy Sunday morning at the beginning of March and I was suffering from cabin fever. It hasn’t been a particularly cold winter, but I had been cooped up nonetheless. Saturday had gone by ...

In my last column, I posed a question that went something like this, “when is a duck not a duck.” The answer is when it is a merganser. Then I wrote about the common merganser, which is a member of ...

Q: An odd thing is happening on a nearby pond: A hooded merganser seems to think a mallard hen is his mate and aggressively chases off any mallard males, even diving underwater like a submarine to ...

The fourth edition of the Blue Water Nature Series features two mergansers. The common (Mergus merganser) and red-breasted mergansers (Mergus serratus) are winter residents of Lake Huron and the St.

For dyed-in-the-wool waterfowlers, the fall bird migrations bring hope for game bags stretched full of colorful, varying duck species. On any given day during duck season, unseen natural events like ...