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LisaG1967

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #45 on: January 31, 2025, 04:32:28 PM »

HM & HD showed up on lower bluff tree this morning, and this evening it looks like they are perched in one of their favorites spots N of N2B.  Many geese were seen in and around the pond this morning, and this afternoon a pair of Red-tailed hawks look to be upstream.







STLbf

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #46 on: January 31, 2025, 05:12:28 PM »

Lisa, seems we don't often see a pair of redtailed hawks perching together.  Nice catch!

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #47 on: January 31, 2025, 07:02:17 PM »

LG the second pic there is looking rather balmy and dry at the retention pond for 01/31/25.   :o

Great screen captures BTW.

U and STL keep them coming.

If your "other side of the bluffs" pic taker friend gets anything of note push them forward please.  ;)
U. S. A.

LisaG1967

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #48 on: February 01, 2025, 10:26:31 AM »

Lisa, seems we don't often see a pair of redtailed hawks perching together.  Nice catch!

Thanks, STL  :)

LisaG1967

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #49 on: February 01, 2025, 10:27:13 AM »

LG the second pic there is looking rather balmy and dry at the retention pond for 01/31/25.   :o

Great screen captures BTW.

U and STL keep them coming.

If your "other side of the bluffs" pic taker friend gets anything of note push them forward please.  ;)

The creek needs a good rain! 

LisaG1967

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #50 on: February 02, 2025, 02:18:37 PM »

Another busy day around the hacthery - one goose arrived on the N side of N1 and then moved to the nest, a goose pair arrived on N2B this afternoon, and HM & HD have been around most of the day.  HM on tree top and HD on bluff perch







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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #51 on: February 02, 2025, 05:32:30 PM »

Lisa, love seeing the eagles, not so much the geese on N1 and N2B,  But geese are better than no birds at all!!

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #52 on: February 03, 2025, 04:40:24 AM »

Lisa, love seeing the eagles, not so much the geese on N1 and N2B,  But geese are better than no birds at all!!

Yes, geese are better than looking at an empty nest.  :D

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #53 on: February 03, 2025, 04:55:23 PM »

Plenty of geese in the Pond area to compete for N1 and N2B.

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #54 on: February 06, 2025, 10:17:59 AM »

HM & HD are still showing up below the bluffs in the morning.   :)



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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #55 on: February 06, 2025, 11:40:14 AM »

We'll keep watching to see if they both stop showing up together in a week or two because maybe they have eggs in their hidden nest.

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #56 on: February 07, 2025, 09:01:08 AM »

I don't recall ever seeing so many geese in the pond.  I wonder if they all plan on staying around.  If we have a picnic this summer, maybe we should be eating goose instead of chicken and pork :-\

LisaG1967

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #57 on: February 07, 2025, 01:14:52 PM »

I don't recall ever seeing so many geese in the pond.  I wonder if they all plan on staying around.  If we have a picnic this summer, maybe we should be eating goose instead of chicken and pork :-\

Linda, there does seem to be quite alot more geese this year. 

We all might need to bring our boots, and not sandals to ATF, in case we step in something!   ;D ;D

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #58 on: February 07, 2025, 02:16:50 PM »

Copulation on tree top near bluff perch for HM & HD around 2:10pm

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Re: Decorah Eagles 2025
« Reply #59 on: February 08, 2025, 04:21:31 PM »

A few random pics from Decorah today.  It was a lil snowy at one point.