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  • Christmas panorama of birds

    JERRY EDDE, retired from the U.S. Forest Service|Dec 24, 2014

    Editor's note: Jerry Edde, retired from the U.S. Forest Service, conducts an annual Gogebic Range bird count from his home in Bessemer, asking area bird watchers to call in their results to him. This year's count was conducted last Saturday. BESSEMER - There was just enough light to see the pointed crest and black mask of a northern cardinal picking up sunflower seeds beneath my bird feeder. Christy could see from a better angle and she said, "It's definitely a male, I can see the red." This is...

  • Rare duck shows up in Christmas Bird Count

    Jerry Edde, Special to the Daily Globe|Dec 26, 2013

    I was still fiddling with the focus knob on the spotting scope when the duck flipped up and dove for the bottom of the pond. "Uh oh, that's no mallard," I thought, as I struggled to bring the edge between the open water and the snow-covered ice into sharp focus. Through the binoculars, it appeared the duck out on the Bessemer Area Wastewater Treatment pond might be a mallard, but it was really too far to tell at 10 power. Mallards are dabblers, not divers, and this duck was still underwater...