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[baziunc]

Hi All.  I'm copying my post from the Decorah Eagles 2015 thread here per request, for those who may be planning to attend the service tomorrow.  My apologies for any parts that are a duplicate of earlier posts here.

Also, you may notice the Decorah News online article (link shown below) said people may want to bring a chair/seat with them since there may be a large number in attendance.


Did everyone see Amy's new RRP Forum thread on the Decorah Eagles 2015 board?  It's a locked thread she started to provide info about Bob's Celebration of Life, and is titled just that -
"Bob's Celebration of Life"

Amy's/mrsfalcon's first post in that new informational thread is at:
http://www.raptorresource.org/forum/index.php/topic,2050.0.html

I hope anyone going to the service tomorrow sees the info there (and on the RRP FB page) about the shuttle service that will run from a mall parking lot to the Hatchery tomorrow, since parking at the hatchery will be so limited.


Also, the public RRP FB post that says: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Raptor-Resource-Project/103786266324668

Raptor Resource Project
16 hrs - Edited

If you are going to Bob's Celebration this Saturday, we have a shuttle bus running between Centrum Mall and the Trout Hatchery. Shuttle service will start at 11:30 and continue through 4:30. The Celebration will start at 1:00pm and go until 4pm. If you are attending (especially from out of town), please consider either taking the shuttle or carpooling, since parking at the hatchery is limited. I've attached a map so you know where to park. You can also follow the link for a Google Map:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/centrum+mall+decorah/@43.291231,-91.7983369,541m/data=!3m1!1e3

You can read a little more about the Celebration here:
http://www.decorahnews.com/news-stories/2015/08/11501.html

Please excuse the Facebook team if we aren't as diligent about answering posts this weekend - everyone has done an amazing job, but they need some private time this weekend. Thanks so much.

[shep]

baz thank you.  I read link you posted from Decorah paper.
I laughed!  In a way thats astonishing, and in another way its no surprise.
What do I think would be Bob's reaction?
BE SURE AND SAVE ME SOME COOKIES!
.

THE BIGGEST FUNERAL EVER IN DECORAH?
Posted: Thu, Aug 6, 2015 8:06 PM
A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday afternoon In Decorah for Raptor Resource Project Director Bob Anderson, who died July 27th.
Because of the strong response from out-of-town residents, anywhere from 1,000 to 3,000 people may attend the event.  That has led to several changes in the plans.  Instead of a single program at 1:00 p.m. Saturday at Siewers Springs Park near the Trout Hatchery, there will be multiple programs throughout the afternoon?perhaps every hour.   People who are planning to attend are being asked to bring a chair as seating is limited.
http://www.decorahnews.com/news-stories/2015/08/11501.html

[ra]

That's amazing!

[frehaws]

Its happy to see though not surprising, that so many people are able to be in Decorah to attend Bob's Celebration of Life. I am not able to go, but will celebrate here in my home. This rivals any political or government persons remembrance and is far more meaningful an event for a far more wonderful man.

[Sparky10]

Can't imagine where at the hatchery this will take place if the estimate of 1 - 3 thousand people is close to true.

[shep]

Mrsfalcon - Amy's memorial thread
This will be LIVE August 8, Saturday
http://www.raptorresource.org/forum/index.php/topic,2052.0.html

Celebration of Bob's Life
RRP posted on Ustream, an 8 min video slides
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/70328347

The slides video is  a lovely remembrance of http://www.raptorresource.org/forum/Smileys/default/embarrassed.gifob's life!
It took me a lot of coaxing to get that video to work - I took a couple snips from it.
Perusing raptorresource.blogspot.com  I noticed some pics were taken from there

Some of those photos were taken atop the GSB cliff along the Mississippi River in southern Minnesota.
Minnesnowta is where I grew up and I have water skiid in/on that river!
I think one pic was at one of the Xcel falcon nests atop a smoke stack - but I dunno which one.
Falcon chicks was so cute I snipt that pic. Next pic is juvie eagle and smilin Bob.   
One slide looks a lot like Bob at the falcon box at the King or Blackdog Xcel plant, not labled tho.
I had to laugh seeing Bob doing dishes!    
Be sure to periodicly STOP the video to read - ahahaha!

One family photo looks like it could have been taken at Minnehaha Falls, Minnesota.
They dont tell us who is who or where
Here is my photo of the falls - a popular family reunion park




Raptor Resource Project, facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Raptor-Resource-Project/103786266324668

Satellite tracking of eagles
July 2015 video - this is the one I tried before andi's would work
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/67978622

viola's memorial page to Bob Anderson
http://www.addie4god.com/memorialpages/BobAndersonmemorial.html/BobAsmemorial.html

What Bob Anderson Meant to Me - Mainecoonlady post August 07, 2015
http://raptorresource.blogspot.com/2015/08/what-bob-anderson-meant-to-me.html

Michelle, Travis GSB falcons shift change - see babies! May 8, 2015
https://youtu.be/L3jB3OMhelM

I picked up video-slides link from andi's post on this thread
http://www.raptorresource.org/forum/index.php/topic,1974.9900.html

May the LORD be with you all
    - with traveling mercies for those heading to Iowa
This will be a day to remember in the Decorah area!!!!


GSB Blufftop banding June 10, 2013 along Mississippi River

[godiva36]

baz - thanks for posting it to this room and all the links.

frehaws - I hope they have several guest books for people to sign.

Sparky - I believe it will be to the left of the hatchery. Where the ATF tent was set up next to the waterfall.

Shep - thanks for the video and links. Your first link doesn't work.

[Keystone]

Shep - "Bob's entire village people".  That we are! 

[jfrancl]

Though the celebration has started, it is mentioned in RRP facebook that the Celebration of life will not be live streaming today.

[shep]

Decorah eagles 2012


Thanks jf - I checked the decorah chatroom and it doesnt appear active.

The Travels of D1  the transmittered Decorah eaglet
http://viewoftheeagle.blogspot.com/p/where-is-d1.html
http://iowapublicradio.org/post/meet-d1-decorah-eagle#stream/0

Tracking a female eaglet called D1
She hatched in 2011 to the Decorah pair

D1 impressed Bob Anderson with her attraction to rivers, her ability to make long flights, and her adventurous spirit. "She has spent time along at least a dozen different rivers, which underscores the importance of maintaining good water quality," said Bob.  She was expected to follow the Mississippi River and stay near Iowa or Illinois, but instead went on a 1,000 mile trek to northern Wisconsin and Minnesota before returning to her natal area in January 2011.

She made a 140-mile trip in a single day.  D1 flew to an area "closer to Greenland than to Iowa", Anderson noted. After her trip back to Decorah, D1 headed for Polar Bear Provincial Park, some 1,000 miles north of Iowa near the Arctic, on the shores of Hudson Bay in Ontario, Canada.

In December 2012, D1 returned for the second time to Decorah. She had spent the summer above the Arctic Circle, again.
By 2014, she had logged more than 2,000 miles after making two trips to Hudson Bay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorah_Bald_Eagles

2012  -  D1 eagle returns to Decorah
http://www.decorahnewspapers.com/Content/News/Lead-Stories/Article/D1-eagle-returns-to-Decorah-again/2/13/27248

2014  -  D1 spent 3 months above the Arctic Circle and came home to Decorah, perched in a tree overlooking the river.
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Decorah-Eagle-D1-Makes-it-Home-for-the-Holidays-184709551.html

The "Happy Dance" at the 2:29 mark:
http://site.iptv.org/iowaoutdoors/story/1854/decorah-eagle-nest-update

I saw happy dance link posted on one of Bob's memorial threads and it got me looking for where D1 is now!

[shep]

Bob's village family


The 3 pics sparky10 posted from the memorial service are beautiful!  Here is one.  Thank you for those 3 beautiful pics sparky!  I am going to post it on the memorial page for Bob which I started for Bob's village family
http://www.raptorresource.org/forum/index.php/topic,2049.0.html


Posted by sparky10
Pics of the attendees.  I'm guessing at how many people there were.  I counted 160 seats under the canopies.  there were maybe another 100 in their own chairs, standing, sitting by their bicycles, or milling about.  So betweem 250-300 folks.


CONGRATULATIONS Mr. GSB! 
New RRP Director John Howe
I figured you'd be taking over for Bob.
The GSB falcon cam on the bluff was Bob's pride and joy.
Here is their webcam and webpage
http://www.ustream.tv/greatspiritblufffalcons

I read the lovely and nostalgic memorial of Bob by his family dated Aug 7
http://raptorresource.blogspot.com/2015/08/our-brother-bob-anderson.html

I grew up in Minnesota!
I know all those spots they talk about!  I may well have met Bob - but with a name as common as Anderson it jogs no memories.  His family really took me into those spots in my imagination.  Very well written!  I never knew Bob personally.  I wonder if Mr GSB the falcon cam man will quit his job and take over where Bob left off.


RRP facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Raptor-Resource-Project/103786266324668

The Decorah Bald Eagle Violin Concerto - Ulli Reiner
https://youtu.be/t1Z0kAXaqBU

Raptor Resource Project
Today we honor and celebrate the life and legacy of Bob Anderson.
Our sorrow has been tempered by the outpouring of love, kind messages, condolences, and memories shared by all of you recalling how Bob and the Raptor Resource Project has impacted your life, and we thank you all so much for your pledge to come together to bring Bob's dreams and goals to fruition.
Amy has created a beautiful slide show celebrating Bob's life at:
(Dont tell me this doesnt work - it does - but it might take some coaxing)
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/70328347

This is a nice webpage created to memorialize Bob

Decorah Eagles Kiosk
Current displays in the eagle information kiosk at the Decorah Fish Hatchery

Bob Anderson Memorial Display August 6, 2015
Selfies at the Hatchery, by people from all over.
Decorah Difference Makers constructed the kiosk in memory of eaglets D12 and D14.
https://decoraheagleskiosk.wordpress.com

Decorah eagles thread
Page numbers at top and bottom, many thoughts on Bob by those who did and did not attend the memorial Aug 8. NOTE -  It seemed they expected over 1,000 people from all over USA so thought they would have multiple services. 
http://www.raptorresource.org/forum/index.php/topic,2049.0.html

Decorah Eagles 2015
http://www.raptorresource.org/forum/index.php/topic,1974.9975.html

[camperstig]

"bounce"

Bob's Celebration of Life Day - pics by Camper: https://www.flickr.com/photos/134615579@N04/

TTFN
Tig

[izzysamlikeseagles]

Sparky, thank you for letting Shep post those wonderful photos!  And it was really great to meet you and give you a hug-hopefully the next time we meet it will be a more happy occasion...

Hugs,

Izzy

[shep]

Bob's Celebration of Life Day - pics by Camper: https://www.flickr.com/photos/134615579@N04/

Tig

Thank you!  Thank you!
Those are BEAUTIFUL photos!
I have to say the colorful flowers are gorgeuos!

[GSBDweller]

Another nice write up from the Minneapolis StarTribune yesterday.

http://www.startribune.com/obituary-bob-anderson-founder-of-midwest-raptor-project/321147901/