I have spent a good deal of time over the past few days over at the Carpenter Nature Center. Friday was a gorgeous day, with plenty of sunsh...

There were a lot of very colorful dragonflies flying around the Bass Ponds over the summer, which was lucky for me because it seemed as thou...

There were also a few other types of dragonfly that I photographed on my trip to the Bass Ponds back in July. The twelve spotted skimmer is...

Yesterday was the fall equinox. An equinox is a day when the sun is directly over the equator. This phenomena provides us with a day that ha...

I am sorry that the last couple of posts were kind of short. I did them very quickly, on Friday, before I left for a trip up north to Duluth...

Another dragon that was plentiful at the Bass Ponds was the eastern pondhawk. These look similar, at least the males do, to the blue dashers...

July is part of the peek season for pond dragonflies. So when I visited the bass Ponds on the third weekend in July there were a lot of drag...

There are many people around the world who enjoy birdwatching. They find birds fascinating and usually use words like colorful and beautiful...

If you are a fairly new visitor to Ecobirder you might be a bit confused. After all with a name like Ecobirder you are probably expecting ...

The dragonfly that was the most prevalent at the bass ponds when I visited in July was the blue dasher. A member of the Libellulidae fami...

On Monday July 14 th it was a nice day so I decided to go and visit the Bass Ponds after work. In midsummer there is not usually a lot of b...

After birding Black Dog Lake and Old Cedar Avenue Bridge last weekend I moved on to check out the Bass Ponds . Normally I would have kept ...