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clarindagirl

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1245 on: August 31, 2020, 11:43:45 AM »
August 31, 2020, Monday, 1130am --  Juvenile Bald Eagle  --  Flyway

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1246 on: August 31, 2020, 03:47:55 PM »
Handsome juvie! It was there for an hour or so. I looked for a band but didn't see one.
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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1247 on: September 01, 2020, 12:32:55 PM »
Beautiful red-smoky sunrise to begin September. After an early rain shower, two different eagles on watch during the morning.

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1248 on: September 01, 2020, 02:31:27 PM »
September 1, 2020, Tuesday --  Immature Great Blue Heron  -- Flyway



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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1249 on: September 01, 2020, 04:23:37 PM »
Great pics, Clarinda. GBHs are so prehistoric looking. Dinosaurs live on.   ;)
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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1250 on: September 01, 2020, 04:27:18 PM »
Great pics, clarinda and STL!
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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1251 on: September 01, 2020, 10:46:54 PM »
Pip & I quietly casually bass fishing one eve getting totally skunked.

The penultimate fisher bird, the Great Blue Heron, spears the Bass we've been after with our stupid 2 footer lures for hours.

We love it.

It's his lake.   :)

 
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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1252 on: September 02, 2020, 12:10:28 PM »
Looking for a definitive ID on this bird, 9-ish this morning. Some at Flyway Chat say juvie peregrine falcon.   Northern Harrier gets my vote. See comparison photos from All About Birds.

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1253 on: September 02, 2020, 07:02:43 PM »
STL -- I agree with Northern Harrier.  I had also googled and compared pics.  In addition, a couple of people on the Explore chat board who are knowledgeable about hawks said the same.
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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1254 on: September 03, 2020, 12:58:29 AM »
Ginger, thanks for passing along info from Explore chat. I forget to look there, but I will now.

The only hawk I'm really familiar with is the Cooper's Hawk that patrols my neighborhood, an older residential area. Now and then it gets a bird in my yard, usually a mourning dove. I figure the doves that fall prey to the hawk are either old or in poor health. Or really not paying attention.
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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1255 on: September 03, 2020, 05:15:17 PM »
This afternoon, around 4 PM, several juvie and sub-adult BEs have encounters with sandhill cranes. They all seem to be taking advantage of the wind to go skyhopping. Very entertaining on the rewind.

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1256 on: September 04, 2020, 10:22:18 AM »
Sub-adult BE got a small duck as prey this morning about 9:30. Plentiful food supply this time of year.

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1257 on: September 04, 2020, 12:02:13 PM »
Two BEs look like log-rollers!   ;)

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1258 on: September 04, 2020, 02:20:59 PM »
Great pics, STL!
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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #1259 on: September 04, 2020, 06:49:36 PM »
Late afternoon, 5-6:30 PM, one sub-adult BE got a medium size white bird. Gull or Caspian tern perhaps (no long neck or legs). Later several sub-adults joined the party, but not much competition or aggression.

Tonight is supposed to be another BIG migration flight night. Maybe the group of brown ducks will be part of it.

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