Mar. 28—Common redpolls, one of few Alaska songbirds that endure the grueling northern winter, are familiar visitors to Southcentral. But this winter, an explosion of the little scarlet-capped finches ...

Why, a friend asked, are there so many birch seeds on top of the snowpack in Fairbanks? A day later, the answer hit me in the head. As I walked through the forest, I looked up just in time to get ...

GRAND FORKS – The bird columnist must make a choice between species that are regular here but ordinarily not abundant, and species that are often abundant but are absent this year. The choice goes to ...

The redpolls are coming, the redpolls are coming! Fortunately, the only weapons they carry are a tiny bill and a voracious appetite. The redpoll is a species made for the Arctic tundra, where they ...

Halfway between the winter solstice of Dec. 21 and the vernal equinox on March 20 is the first week of February. Putting this in different words, when we get to early February, we are halfway through ...

I saw the flock of birds, hand unloaded my shotgun and leaned it up against a tree, then grabbed my camera. My grouse hunt had been interrupted by a favorite winter bird: The common redpoll. The ...

Driven south due to a poor conifer crop up north, evening grosbeaks, redpolls and bohemian waxwings will be looking for food ...

February's cold, cloudy days can be made more enlightening if we have an active bird feeder to watch. The regulars have settled in by this time, and we see the usual, but never boring, antics of black ...

The longer the winter lasts, the more I appreciate the redpolls. These energetic little birds have been at my feeders frequently this winter. I'm tempted to write "exuberant." Unlike the Postal ...