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Please join us for our first egg fundraiser on Saturday, February 22!

February 15, 2025: DNF's eggs. Eagle eggs don’t freeze easily or quickly.

It took a bunch of really passionate people to come together on behalf of raptors and it’s going to take even more to keep our work going! If you’d like to help us, please donate here: https://www.raptorresource.org/support-the-raptor-resource-project/make-a-donation/ Please join us for our first egg fundraiser on Saturday, February 22! With two eggs at Decorah North, more coming at Trempealeau and Fort St. Vrain, multiple eagle tracking projects, two banding stations in partnership with three colleges, an exciting research opportunity involving

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Announcing: Chat at Trempealeau

January 8, 2025: Nice views of Mrs. T at Trempealeau - https://youtu.be/z1HzC7ew9BY?si=775ijXmLvdl2Y-rL

We have a some exciting announcements to make! We’re starting a chat at our Trempealeau, Wisconsin eagle nest this year. Bald eagles Mr. and Mrs. T have been nestorating and it looks like they are on track for a great season – talons crossed, of course! You can watch them, learn more about them, and find our chat here: https://www.raptorresource.org/trempealeau-eagles/. Our moderators are super excited to chat here this year and we’ll post hours as soon as we have them!

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February 3, 2025: Nestflix and News from Trempealeau, Fort St. Vrain, and Decorah!

February 2, 2025: Mr. T and his messy beak!

Put up your feet and relax – it’s time for NestFlix! Today, we have videos from Trempealeau and Fort St. Vrain, and an Odds and Ends about getting involved with nature in your community! Tick-tock, egg-clock: if DNF sticks to her usual schedule, we’ll see our first egg in just 13 days or so. I hope you are as eggcited as we are! Time flies when you’re watching eagles and falcons… Trempealeau Eagles February 3, 2025: Love is in the

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When will our eagles lay eggs?

January 26, 2025: Mr. North and DNF duetting

When will the Decorah North, Trempealeau, and Fort St. Vrain eagles begin laying eggs? Mark your calendars as follows! It looks like the lead-up to eggs has started at the North nest. Mr. North and DNF have copulated almost every day since January 24 and DNF was very interested on the one day they didn’t. This is very similar to 2024, which again, puts egg number one around February 15. We’re also seeing solicitation, footing, and duetting. More on eagle

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January 22, 2025: Welcome back, DNF and Mr. North and Mr. and Mrs. T!

January 22, 2025: Mr. North prepares the North nest for eggs. IN: Rustic cornhusk bedding. OUT: Squirrel-fur lined silk sheets!

It’s (practically) a tropical heatwave! While eagles are well-suited to snow and cold, they tend to respond to sub-zero temps by reducing their activity, which is exactly what we saw through this week’s polar plunge! After bringing sticks in on Saturday, the Norths ceased nestorations until about 11:00AM this morning, when DNF flew into the North nest with a talonful of grass. Mr. North quickly joined her and the two spread nesting material, dug and scraped, checked out the nest

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January 10, 2025: The Week in Bald Eagles!

January 9, 2025: DNF caught a nice trout for breakfast - https://youtu.be/X2GebRWdrYo?si=6g5qKAufUzY11AcH. While Bald Eagles eat a wide variety of food, their favorite thing is fish! Although the species change, fish make up from 68 to 88% of meals at our nests. We tend to see whatever is most common and easiest to catch: trout and sucker at the North nest and sucker, carp, and trout at Fort St. Vrain. We're still working on fish ID in Trempealeau, but we've seen gar come into the nest, reflecting its location on the Mississippi River. To learn more about what our eagles eat, follow this link: https://www.raptorresource.org/tag/menu/

Happy Fri-yay, everyone! Welcome to the week in Bald Eagles! 🦅 This week, the Norths perfected their nestorations, ramped up their courtship – albeit in a very eagle way – and enjoyed some trout tartare, the Fort St. Vrain Eagles shoveled snow and fed themselves and the local magpies, the Trempealeau Eagles showed off their magnificent river views, and HM and HD hosted some visitors. Is your egg clock ticking yet? If the Decorah North and Fort St. Vrain Eagles

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November 13, 2024: Meet me at the Love Branch!

November 13, 2024: Meet me at the Love Branch!

♪ The Love Branch ♫ is a little ole place ♫ where ♩ Bald Eagles get to-getherrrrr ♫ In this case, the Love Branch is a well-worn white pine branch and the eagles are Mrs. T and Mr. T, on (we think) their second year as an eagle couple. Bald Eagles have been documented copulating ten months out of the year; at our latitude, they copulate productively between mid-January and early March, but they also copulate outside that time frame

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October 28, 2024: Tricks and Treats from the North Nest, the Flyway, and Trempealeau!

October 25, 2024: DNF in the North Nest.

Happy Halloween week! Today’s treats include a meteor shower, a splish-splash eagle bath, and a fox squirrel stealing a pileated woodpecker’s snacks…the naughty trickster! This week, we’re looking forward to nestorations, Flyway and North Nest arrivals and departures, especially on Wednesday when the warm southerly wind finally changes direction, and more sightings of our North Nest neighbors. The warm extended fall makes it feel like summer, but the north nest neighbors are clearly preparing for winter and – in the

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October 21: It’s stick time! News and NestFlix from Decorah North and Trempealeau

October 14, 2024: DNF and Mr. North enjoy a little spa time!

It looks like eagles at all of our nests have started nestorations! DNF, Mr. North, and Mr. and Mrs. T are visiting Nest Depot, flying in sticks, inspecting one another’s work, and tangoing away to put everything in the perfect place. 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

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October 16, 2024: Trempealeau Eagles, Decorah North, and the Flyway!

This is my happy face! A beautiful eagle on the Flyway this morning.

It was a busy day for eagles – and other birds! – today. At Trempealeau, Mr. and Mrs. T attended to some sticky business as they figured out furniture placement, tangoed, and made early home improvements. We believe that it’s Mr. T’s second year as a mate and father, so we’re very curious to see how he’ll do with food gifts to Mrs. T, brooding, and feeding his young. Trempealeau Eagles At Decorah North, Mr. North and DNF are continuing

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