Happy April Fools’ Day! March ended chilly, but the spring feel returns today. Temperatures will reach the upper 60s this afternoon with partly cloudy skies. A strong southeast breeze today will gust ...

The red-winged blackbirds are trilling like crazy — especially in the mornings, trying to get the attention of a mate. For the past two or more weeks, I have been getting reports of wild turkeys ...

In February and March, male red-wings travel north from their southern wintering grounds and find good spots for nesting and ...

Shortly afterwards, Loewen noticed red-winged blackbirds and thought about how often she saw these birds in Shorewood. Her husband, who is a Milwaukee Public School teacher, told her a group of ...

(Orlan Love/correspondent) A male red-winged blackbird, newly arrived Monday in southern Buchanan County, displays his gaudy epaulets and hails spring with his optimistic conk-la-ree. (Orlan Love/ ...

PETER MCGUIRE, BYLINE: Maine Audubon's Doug Hitchcock cranes his head to catch sight of red-winged blackbirds bobbing and diving in the woods outside the group's headquarters. It's a bitter ...

I spent too much time this past weekend trying to get a great action shot of the red-winged blackbirds at my neighbor’s pond. You know how sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees?

Over the years my "first bird" has evolved, I wrote, from the American robin to the red-winged blackbird to the sandhill crane. And in that column and in a later Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reader ...