The first week of March came with a roller coaster of emotions.

Rather, I sat for four hours in its shadow, marveling over a flock of perhaps 5,000 ducks of at least 10 species. Lake Erie can be a frigid place in winter ... about frosty weather, and these ...

I guess birders have a sixth sense, or maybe lucky, or the old “time on task” adage works, but March 10 boded well for being a great day to bird. Why? The weather forecast was predicting a warm-up ...

But sick ducks still had to be removed from the flock so they could not infect healthy birds. With avian flu, of course, infected poultry are not simply separated from the flock. The entire flock ...