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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #2040 on: June 14, 2022, 11:49:12 AM »

Great blue heron captures a large, round, flat fish and gobbles it down.  Worth the rewind!

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #2041 on: June 16, 2022, 12:10:47 PM »

Another beautiful sky this morning.  An adult BE and a sub-adult had some kind of large prey, duck maybe, on one of the sand spits early this morning. Too far away to tell what they were eating, so no pic.  Not competing for the food, so they are not really hungry or perhaps a parent bird with eaglet.

Do we know how many eaglets fledged from the Cooper's nest this year?

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #2042 on: June 22, 2022, 09:12:04 PM »

I sure wish we did STL!!  But I am pretty confident that there are at least a few fledglings from the various nests, based on what we are seeing.


After the Fledge registration is out, hope to see you all there!

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #2043 on: June 25, 2022, 12:04:04 PM »

Red sky at daybreak today, apparently there were some strong-ish storms around Decorah.  Some cameras went offline for a while.

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #2044 on: July 01, 2022, 11:20:54 AM »

Welcome to July at the Flyway.  Sunrise and sunset colors are more beautiful and way safer than fireworks!

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #2045 on: July 03, 2022, 12:33:48 PM »

Against all odds, Flyway cam is frozen!  :) ;) :( ::)
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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #2046 on: July 03, 2022, 01:09:17 PM »

To the repair tech working on this holiday weekend.....Thank You!  The freeze has been thawed.  :)
Use the talents you possess: for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.
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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #2047 on: July 04, 2022, 11:33:34 AM »

Big flock of Great egrets feeding in the rain this morning. The closeup pic provides good ID -- tall, all white feathers, yellow bill.

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #2048 on: July 08, 2022, 11:53:48 AM »

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #2049 on: July 10, 2022, 09:01:59 AM »

Sun peeking through the clouds this morning.

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #2051 on: July 11, 2022, 11:09:35 AM »

Ginger, the flyway sunrises always amaze me -- such a big sky!  Today, it's pink and red all around.

T40, thanks for the article about swans.  Hummingbirds do a lot of squabbling over territory, too.

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #2052 on: July 12, 2022, 06:05:01 AM »

Seventeen sandhill cranes against one juvie eagle doesn't seem fair.  Think the juvie has a turtle.
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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #2053 on: July 13, 2022, 08:02:52 PM »

eburg, that was a big bunch of sandhills yesterday.  I didn't get a pic either.
Here's a couple from today.

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Re: Flyway Cam NFWR La Crosse
« Reply #2054 on: July 15, 2022, 10:30:01 AM »

If you need something to watch on this windy, rainy morning, a mallard hen is shepherding her chicks in the shallows.