MPCA monitoring fuel spill near St. Paul s Battle Creek None of the contents of a punctured freight car reached Pig s Eye Lake. July 20, 2021 7:34pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Officials from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) are continuing to monitor a St. Paul stream where hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel leaked from a freight train last week.
On July 13, Canadian Pacific Railway reported that a locomotive was punctured by a braking device in its rail yard in Pig s Eye Regional Park. The company said between 360 and 720 gallons of fuel spilled, according to Andrea Cournoyer, assistant director of communications for the MPCA.
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To passersby, it looks like an empty, overgrown field in the suburbs, closely monitored by corrections officers from the neighboring county workhouse.
But the St. Paul Audubon Society says the 77-acre, Ramsey County-owned parcel in Maplewood now being eyed for an affordable housing development is a rare urban grassland teeming with nesting migratory songbirds including the Henslow s sparrow, which is on the state s endangered species list. Audubon members, joined by the nonprofit Friends of the Mississippi River and the Legacy of Nature Alliance, are imploring county leaders to save the grassland and incorporate it into Battle Creek Regional Park.
From grape jelly to high-protein insects, orioles diet changes with the seasons Orioles flock to jelly feeders, only to disappear in summer.
By VAL CUNNINGHAM, Contributing writer May 25, 2021 10:31am Text size Copy shortlink:
Q: I love to see the orioles at my grape jelly feeder each spring, but wonder why they disappear in late May? What can I do to keep them around?
A: It s not that you re doing anything wrong with your oriole feeding system, it s just that their needs change as breeding season arrives. Those early Baltimore orioles were happy to gulp down your grape jelly, but now that they re feeding youngsters in the nest, they need high-protein insects for their young. This diet speeds up nestling development and lets them grow to the size of their parents in less than two weeks.
What s your cardinal story? Readers share tales of the birds that brighten our winters Did you hear the one about how a cardinal defeated a spider s web?
By Val Cunningham Special to the Star Tribune March 9, 2021 9:15am Text size Copy shortlink:
The longer winter goes on, with its monochrome palette, leafless branches and profound silence, the more we appreciate the brilliantly red Northern cardinal.
Cardinals visit our backyards and feeders every month of the year, but in winter they seem to be in nature s spotlight. Unlike many songbirds, they combine brilliant plumage with a melodious song (with many other birds, it s one or the other). There s nothing quite like the sight of brilliant red