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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #300 on: October 31, 2024, 07:34:41 AM »
COLD is coming, snow in some states.
The eve of November.

Haunting memory of the Edmund Fitzgerald song.
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #301 on: November 02, 2024, 06:03:44 AM »
Nov. 2- HIGHLIGHTS - why?
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #302 on: November 02, 2024, 12:20:26 PM »
Dunno why highlights earlier today, but it's back live at noon.
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #303 on: November 03, 2024, 07:46:28 AM »
Nov 3 highlights again
pouring rain Decorah - looks cold
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #304 on: November 04, 2024, 04:38:16 PM »
Fall colors are coming to an end at GSB.  Cameras live, but the weather forcast box has been off for a week.  DNN has  a new look for the forcast, and Decorah and the Flyway forcasts are also off.  I 'spect they will all have the new look soon.
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #305 on: November 07, 2024, 02:53:17 PM »
Count the bald eagles in the trees across from the nest box about 10:00 this morning!

Barge headed downriver from the locks at 2:15 this afternoon.
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #306 on: November 08, 2024, 01:56:03 AM »
Nov 7 I saw a large barge headin upstream.
They're movin ahead of river freeze

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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #307 on: November 08, 2024, 02:07:38 PM »
Looks like migrating swans have arrived in the GSB area.
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #308 on: November 15, 2024, 01:10:00 PM »
The new weather display is live here and at Decorah's page. Scroll below the live feed to see it.
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #309 on: November 16, 2024, 02:12:41 AM »
Busy barges before the river freezes over
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #310 on: November 27, 2024, 10:36:33 AM »
Trains and barges provide interesting watching at GSB while the peregrines are elsewhere.
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #311 on: November 29, 2024, 10:57:16 AM »
At these temps in the teens, the river edges will freeze over soon.  About 10:00 several eagles were standing on ice watching the water birds.
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #312 on: November 30, 2024, 02:26:04 PM »
Cam ops might have found an eagle nest in tree tops on the island across from the peregrine nest box. Anyone know if it is active?

Several dark mounds on the ground and in shallow water, might be muskrat homes (lodges).

About noon, a gang of a dozen or more eagles were on the ice watching a nearby large flock of ducks in open water. Go to rewind to watch all of them suddenly take to the air.
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #313 on: December 03, 2024, 02:28:27 PM »
Frigid temps are freezing the river.  Before dawn a couple large boats went upriver, opening the channel as they passed by the GSB camera range.  About 9:00, another, maybe a small barge, headed north.  Very interesting.
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #314 on: December 06, 2024, 03:08:16 PM »
December 6, 2024
Ah, ice. Barge season over.

Banded male appeared at the nest.

Male Zazu 18/U hatched in 2022 at Bay State Milling, Winona.

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December 6, Zazu arrived.
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