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STLbf

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #510 on: October 19, 2024, 12:34:17 PM »

Lisa, watching the rewind around 7:30 AM, there were 2 wild turkeys, perched near each other.  One walked and one flew down from their roosts and moved away from the edge of the bluff as the camera color came on.  Then cam ops switched to BE in higher perch.  Such fun to watch all the activity. 

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #511 on: October 19, 2024, 02:28:22 PM »

Lisa, watching the rewind around 7:30 AM, there were 2 wild turkeys, perched near each other.  One walked and one flew down from their roosts and moved away from the edge of the bluff as the camera color came on.  Then cam ops switched to BE in higher perch.  Such fun to watch all the activity.

I love seeing all the activity, too.  :)

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #512 on: October 20, 2024, 04:07:53 PM »

HD was on bluff perch this morning, left there to fish the pond.  He flew to lower bluff tree, then broke off a stick, and flew over to other side of the bluffs with stick.







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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #513 on: October 21, 2024, 09:44:26 AM »

Belted Kingfisher this morning in Decorah

STLbf

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #514 on: October 21, 2024, 02:00:20 PM »

Lisa, Love the kingfisher!

Wonder if anyone has seen HM or HD visiting N1 since the cameras returned live?  We see them in the general area, but on this nest, or any other, like N2B or the nest they started last year in the pasture corner?

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #515 on: October 21, 2024, 02:47:14 PM »

Lisa, Love the kingfisher!

Wonder if anyone has seen HM or HD visiting N1 since the cameras returned live?  We see them in the general area, but on this nest, or any other, like N2B or the nest they started last year in the pasture corner?

I have not seen them on nest, or any other place the cam ops has shown. 

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #516 on: October 24, 2024, 04:43:40 PM »

A few pics from Decorah this morning.  Hard to tell so far away, but looked like both HM & HD were around the bluff area this morning at different times.  GBH seen upstream in pines.







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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #517 on: October 24, 2024, 04:54:16 PM »

Wouldn't it be nice for RRP to put a camera out by the fishing corner for closer views of that bluff area?  The wish list is long!

Did you catch the raccoon foraging in the creek on the N1 side, around 8:00 this morning?  Same time as the GBH in the pine tree.

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #518 on: October 25, 2024, 11:29:51 AM »

Wonder if anyone has seen HM or HD visiting N1 since the cameras returned live?  We see them in the general area, but on this nest, or any other, like N2B or the nest they started last year in the pasture corner?

STL From RRP FB 3 days ago:

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"While HM and HD don't appear inclined to come back to N1 or to adopt N2B, we have seen them fishing the pond and carrying sticks to the east. We'll go scouting for their latest nest and for Mom and DM2 once more leaves are down".

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #519 on: October 26, 2024, 02:19:08 PM »

About 1:30 this afternoon, adult BE perching along the bluffs upstream from N1, probably HM or HD.

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #520 on: October 26, 2024, 04:07:03 PM »

HM & HD seemed to perch in two separate places this morning.  One on bluff perch, and the other in an area behind or E of N2B somewhere.  Looked like HM upstream this afternoon, also.





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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #521 on: October 27, 2024, 12:39:09 PM »

Tis the season for sitting around a lot! 

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #522 on: October 27, 2024, 12:53:04 PM »

It looked like HD arrived on the lower bluff tree this morning.  HD also flew to the backside of the lower bluff tree where he perch for a while, before heading out W of hatchery past the pines by raceways.  There was a lull for a while, and then HM & HD were spotted again perched in the bluffs to the left of the mid bluff (as shown in STL's).





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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #523 on: October 27, 2024, 02:57:19 PM »

Great pics, Lisa, as usual!   Looks like the cornfield is getting harvested so we'll probably see deer feeding on the dropped ears and kernels in coming days.

Thanks to the cam ops for lots of panning views today, and some closeups of the trees as they lose the intense colors of fall.

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2024
« Reply #524 on: November 02, 2024, 04:26:04 PM »

Early this morning, it looked like HD on bluff perch based on shape.  A short while later, you could see someone fly in from the left to the tree top above HD.  Cam op zoomed out when HD flew off, and you could see HM perched on tree top above bluff perch.  She broke off a stick, and flew over to E side of bluffs.  She use to perch there alot last season.