Metro Area Fishing Report – February 9, 2025 – video
The shallow weed bite continues and focusing on structure is a priority.
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February 9, 2025
Nature Smart: What drives irruptions with bird species?
Nature is fluid and adaptive. Once you wrap your head around that simple truth, answering some of nature’s questions becomes easier.
For example, every few years, several bird species such as the common redpoll, pine siskin, evening grosbeak and others move out of their normal winter ranges and into other areas to seek food. This group of birds is usually referred to as the “winter finches,” and this mass movement of a group of birds is called an “irruption.”
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Commentary: Enduring patterns: migrations and hunter harvests
Ancient is our union with woods and waters.
We live in rhythms, circadian and seasonal, granular and in grandeur. Animal migrations are among the most fascinating of rhythmic natural phenomena, some of it well-studied. We as participants and observers of the natural world likewise respond accordingly as we have for millennia.
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Tom Bahti: You can get well in a hurry on sharptails
It was my friend and writer Tom Davis who once told me: “When you’re hunting sharp-tailed grouse, you can get well in a hurry.” I’m not sure that he came up with that saying himself, as he may have mentioned that he heard it from another prairie grouse hunter at a different time, but I’ll just give him credit for it. Truth is truth.
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