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Monthly Archives: March 2021

March 29, 2021: Nestflix from Decorah North, Great Spirit Bluff, and Marshall, MO!

March 29, 2021 RaptorResource

Kick back – it’s time for NestFlix! At Decorah North, D13 and D14 are growing like weeds and eating like pee-glets. The two will go from about 3.2 ounces to roughly 16 ounces or one pound in just seven days, which takes a lot of food! At just three and four days old, the tiny terrors are rapidly gaining strength and coordination, and of course the beak-bonking battles have begun. Look for this behavior to get a little worse as

March 26, 2021: We have your NestFlix! Decorah North and Great Spirit Bluff

March 27, 2021 RaptorResource

Happy Fri-yay! Grab beverages and snacks, put your feet up, and prepare for cuteness overload – it’s time for NestFlix! While Mr. North and DNF care for DN13 at Decorah North, Newman and Zooey strengthen their pair bond. I am so happy to be watching, sharing, learning, and caring with all of you! We are on hatch watch for egg #2 at Decorah North. 🦅 Decorah Eagles North March 26, 2021: DN13, peeks and feedings today – https://youtu.be/68_BP7wx9GI. This wonderful

Welcome to the world, D13!

March 25, 2021 RaptorResource

Welcome to DN13 at the Decorah North Nest and congratulations to Mr. North and DNF, even though their beautiful and very deep egg cup managed to obscure our views! We called the hatch time at 7:21AM CT when we saw a ‘wing wave’ from the new hatchling and we got a better glimpse of the little bobblehead with Mr. North at about 10:01AM CT. Hatch watch starts tomorrow for egg two. Videos DN13 Feeding @ 1:30 PM: https://youtu.be/7iyzXF7mQ4w. A little

How do we know falcon Zooey’s age?

March 24, 2021 RaptorResource

How do we know that falcon Zooey is two years old? Peregrine falcons have two distinct age-related plumages: juvenile and adult. Juvenile falcons have heavily barred underparts and brownish topsides (“brown birds”), mature falcons have pale undersides with black-barred bellies and blue/slate topsides (“blue meanies”), and two-year-old falcons like Zooey have a mix of adult and juvenile feathers. I love this stage! Tail Feathers (Retrices) Like all peregrine falcons, Zooey has twelve tailfeathers that are numbered one to six from

Pip hip hooray!

March 24, 2021 RaptorResource

Pip hip hooray! We spotted our first pip at Decorah North this morning around 10:00 am, which means that the first eaglet has pierced the egg shell. Mr. North and DNF are going to keep their eggs covered today, but look for little glimpses of its tiny beak chipping at its shell between shift changes and listen for soft vocalizations – egg talk! – between parents and hatching young. Hatch usually happens between 24 and 48 hours after we see

March 24, 2021: NestFlix!

March 23, 2021 RaptorResource

We have your Nestflix mega-roll, with videos from Decorah North, Decorah, and the Flyway! At Decorah North, DNF dines on cowghetti, flies past some deer, and gathers grass to replenish the nursery. It won’t be long until eaglets at here! In Decorah, Mom eats a light fish dinner, letting prospective inhabitants know that this eagle branch and breakfast isn’t for rent! And pelicans – a marvelous, magnificent sign of spring – return to the Flyway today, resplendent in their beautiful

D36 and D27 Phone Home!

March 20, 2021 RaptorResource

Where are D36 and D37? The warming weather is bringing eagles north by the tens of thousands, and D36 and D27 are among them! The two sent us eagle airmail from Preston, MN (D27) and Cedar Falls, IA (D36). D27 headed north on March 4. She flew north to Wabasha and checked out the National Eagle Center, went further north to visit Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island plant, and could have been one of the many eagles I saw kettling above

Mom and the Visitor

March 18, 2021 RaptorResource

An unknown adult male eagle dropped by to check out N2B on March 17. Mom stopped in and kicked him – quite literally! – out of the nest. I thought this whole video was fascinating, but check out the male’s interaction with Mom. As she flies in, he tries to placate her by tipping forward or bowing, and by looking at her from the side instead of challenging her with a direct gaze. However, she isn’t having any of it

Happy St. Patrick’s Day From the Raptor Resource Project!

March 17, 2021 RaptorResource

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to our friends near and far! May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you, and all your heart might desire! In celebration of the day, we wanted to share an eagle conservation story from Ireland. In 2020, Glengarriff Nature Reserve announced the arrival of a white-tailed sea eagle chick, the second born in Co Cork in this decade.

News, nestflix, and itsy-bitsy spiders!

March 16, 2021 RaptorResource

Snow, snow, go away! Mr. North and DNF rode the storm out after six inches of snow fell on the North nest. We’re looking forward to warmer, drier weather for the rest of the week, which should melt the snow fast: a good thing, since we think hatch will start here in about 13 days! In the meantime, we’ve got wonderful close-ups of the two incubating, nice looks at the eggs, date night, and an itsy bitsy spider piggybacking on

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