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Wood thrush is an uncommon bird in eastern North Dakota. This individual showed up last week in a West Fargo yard.
Keith Corliss / West Fargo Pioneer

Flight Lines: Celebrated songster makes surprise appearance

I remember the occasion vividly but couldn't recall the date; luckily I kept notes - August 19, 1995. It was back in the days when I was getting around quite...

flight lines / outdoors Wed, May 11, 2011 - 12:00am

The author's dog, Remy, retrieves a ruffed grouse during a fall hunt. Tyler Shoberg / West Fargo Pioneer

Kitchen experimentation: 'Homemade' wild recipes worth saving

Inspiration for the "recipes" came to me during a long run with my trusty one-year-old dog, Remy. At the time, we were scooting south on Elm Street next to a...

outdoors Wed, May 04, 2011 - 12:00am

A merlin sits on a fencepost north of Fargo. This bird-eating falcon is one of a number of raptors which have taken to urban living over the past couple of decades. Keith Corliss / West Fargo Pioneer

Flight Lines: Are your pets at risk with peregrins?

If one is to believe the premise of a recent letter-to-the-editor in the Forum, there is a direct threat to the lives of pets everywhere in the metro area and...

flight lines / outdoors Wed, Apr 27, 2011 - 12:00am

ND Bowhunter Association holds annual meeting

The North Dakota Bowhunter Association held its annual general membership meeting April 1, at the Gladstone Inn, Jamestown. Several topics were discussed concerning archery and bow hunting in North Dakota...

outdoors Wed, Apr 27, 2011 - 12:00am

Remy, the author's German wirehaired pointer, plays keep away with a dead muskrat during a recent spring snow goose hunt in North Dakota. Tyler Shoberg / West Fargo Pioneer

Open Season: There is no goose hunting like snow goose hunting

Face down in a muddy, soggy corn field, I contemplate our sanity for a lengthy amount of time. More than 100 yards ahead of us are tens of thousands of...

outdoors Wed, Apr 20, 2011 - 12:00am

Snow geese by the hundreds of thousands were reported all across North Dakota last week, including these birds over West Fargo. Keith Corliss/The Pioneer

Flight Lines: A week of wonder as spring migrants invade

Initially, I found it odd that a coworker would call me during evening hours. Odd, that is, until he asked the question. Breathing heavily from a late day walk, he...

flight lines / outdoors Wed, Apr 13, 2011 - 12:00am

A photo depicting a highness of royal terns, mixing with a conspiracy of black skimmers, and a tiny screech of gulls. Keith Corliss

Flight Lines: Funny and unused, archaic collective nouns

A collective noun, as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary, is a word that "denotes a collection of persons or things regarded as a unit." Whether we are aware or...

flight lines / outdoors Wed, Mar 30, 2011 - 12:00am

Forum File Photo
Camping can be a fun, inexpensive way to bust out of your everday life. Coincidentally, North Dakota offers plenty of opportunities to do just that. Forum file photo.

Open Season: Camping the answer to tight budgets, $4 gas

I can still recall my first "real" camping adventure (you know, beyond merely pitching a tent in the backyard). I was 8 or 9 years old. My father, Bret, had...

outdoors Wed, Mar 23, 2011 - 12:00am

Stewart McDanial attempts to get comfortable in a muddy, messy grain field, as he awaits another flock of snow geese during a spring hunt in North Dakota. Tyler Shoberg/The Pioneer

Spring light goose season: Game and Fish updates migration progress

Snow geese have yet to arrive in North Dakota, but the spring light goose migration has made its way into the southern portion of South Dakota. This week's forecast in...

outdoors Wed, Mar 23, 2011 - 12:00am

The song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) is one of the most variable birds in America with 24 different subspecies recognized by scientists. This individual, photographed in Oregon, contrasts sharply with the subspecies adapted to our area.

Flight Lines: With time, everything changes and adapts

Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan first described the native people near the southern tip of South America - an area he named Tierra del Fuego - in 1520 during his historic...

flight lines / outdoors Wed, Mar 16, 2011 - 12:00am

Stewart McDanial attempts to get comfortable in a muddy, messy grain field, as he awaits another flock of snow geese during a spring hunt in North Dakota. Tyler Shoberg/The Pioneer

Shake off those winter woes: A spring smorgasbord awaits

For the first time in memory, I'm ready to hang up my ice fishing gear and transition to the soft water while there still remains plenty of ice on the...

outdoors Wed, Mar 09, 2011 - 12:00am

Tyler and Callie, Dave and Annie Samson's nephew and niece, play with Flutter, a male monarch butterfly rescued last October, in the Samson home in West Fargo. David Samson/The Pioneer

Flight Lines: Lonely insect touches lives of many

That we tolerate winters here in the Red River Valley is not in doubt. We may not like it, we may even despise it, but we somehow soldier through until...

flight lines / outdoors Wed, Mar 02, 2011 - 12:00am

The gray (or Hungarian) partridge, a bird native to Eurasia, has survived introduction into areas of the Great Plains to the benefit of bird hunters.

Flight Lines: World an ever-changing place, transmigration constant

Since the dawn of time the transmigration of species has been constant. Whether drifting on ocean currents, floating on winds across vast distances, or being assisted by various other means,...

flight lines / outdoors Wed, Feb 16, 2011 - 12:00am

Remy, the author's dog, is more than ready for his daily run, and impatiently waits by the door.

Open Season: A frosty jaunt

It was utterly silent, cold and black. But we loved it. My dog, Remy, and I were making our usual trek through Fargo's Trefoil Park. We intersect the quaint oasis,...

outdoors Wed, Feb 09, 2011 - 12:00am

Another tough winter for North Dakota wildlife

It may sound like a broken record, but North Dakota's weather in February and March will once again be critical to the health of the state's wildlife. Randy Kreil, North...

outdoors Wed, Feb 09, 2011 - 12:00am

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