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D27 meets D36!

November 23, 2020: D27 and D36 meet southeast of Postville

Do eagle siblings ever disperse together? Although our eaglet siblings all appear to be best friends post-fledge, D24, D25, D35, and D36 all dispersed separately. However, half-siblings D27 and D36 spent a few days in the same area on November 23, 24, and 25 this year. Thanks so much for the postcards, eaglets! D36, D27, D24, and D1 all seem to like the Turkey Valley watershed a little south and west of Postville.  It looks like eagle paradise: plenty of

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November 23, 2020: Eaglet airmail!

November 22, 2020: D36's Map

Thanks for the airmail, eaglets! Can we still call D27 an eaglet? She is a little over three years old right now and is spending her time in a valley system just a few miles south of her natal nest. We keep wondering if she’ll cross paths with sibling D36, but the two haven’t been especially close so far. D36 continues to hang south, moving his foraging area from the Turkey River to the Volga River: also a popular spot

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November 2, 2020: D27, D35, and D36 phone home!

November 2, 2020: D35's Travel Map

Hello eaglets…thank you so much for phoning home! D27, D35, and D36 all sent airmails this week. D27 shifted a little northwest of Decorah, passing within a mile of Bob’s old falcon breeding facility in Bluffton! She’s currently about eleven miles north of the nest – the furthest she’s been since arriving back in town this August. D35 continues to explore east central Minnesota. I checked out her coordinates and was fascinated by the area she’s currently staying in. Her

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D35, D36, and D27 phone home!

October 14, 2020: D36's map

Our eaglets sent postcards! As of October 11, D35 was exploring the northern reaches of Elk River, MN; D36 was spending time near Postville, IA; and D27 was back on her wintering grounds just south of the hatchery. While we haven’t seen D27 at the hatchery yet, she’s spending a lot of time just two to five miles south of it – an area with running water, steeply folded hills, and corn and hog farms on the flat lands. We

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Eaglets D27, D36, and D36 all phone home!

September 28, 2020: Eaglet maps

Where are our eaglets? D27, D35, and D36 all sent postcards this week! Here is what we know… D35 is still enjoying east central Minnesota, although she has made her way a little south from Princeton/Cambridge to the Elk River area, passing within a mile of our Great River Energy peregrine falcon nestbox. Breezy and Brooklyn could have easily seen her from their vantage point high atop the new nest pole! Unsurprisingly, she’s also spent some time at the large

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Three eagles phone home!

August 31, 2020: Three eagles flying high, from the west to the east.

We have your postcards! D27 left the north and arrived back in Decorah on August 29, passing within .20 miles of her natal nest! If you check the maps, you’ll see that she spent a little time near a favorite outdoor school spot/perching place for the Decorah Eagles this summer. Was she close to D36? Not especially! Our little homebody took a trip up to Bluffton, Iowa, in the late afternoon. By the time D27 arrived, D36 was gone! Still,

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Our eagles are on the move!

August 16, 2020: D35's Map

Our eagles are on the move! D35 surprised us all by making a big move north on the afternoon of August 12th. At 1:03 PM, she was hanging out near the corner of Highway 9 and Montgomery Street in Decorah – about 1.37 miles from her natal nest. By 4:03 – just three hours later! – she was 49 miles NW along the North Branch of the Root River: a lovely wild area that has the riverine valleys, steep folded

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Checking in with the eaglets!

August 12, 2020: D27's map

Where are the eaglets? Up in Canada, D-27 appears to have gotten itchy feet – or maybe itchy wings! She flew over 90 miles south on August 5, but reversed course the next day. By late August 8, she was just 36 miles SSE of Petownikip Lake, this year’s summer island-hopping home. Click on the map to enlarge each image I got curious about D27’s previous summers, so I checked them out on our interactive maps. In 2018 and 2019,

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D27, D35, and D36 all phone home!

August 4, 2020: D35's Map

Where are the eagles? D27 sent a postcard from Lake Petownikip in northwestern Ontario this week! She is on an island journey, foraging and perching extensively on the tiny islets that dot the lake. Meanwhile, D35 is beginning to broaden her travels! Brett wrote: “Look who is getting a little adventurous! Two jaunts of nearly two miles one-way in a day! It is nice she came back to her natal area by day’s end.” We thought D36 might begin exploring

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D27, D35, and D36 check in!

July 22, 2020: D36

We have so many postcards this week! D27, D35, and D36 all phoned home – although the last two were just around the corner most of the time. To date, D36 has the longest flight record, at .365 miles from his natal nest. If you’ve trekked or biked Trout Run Trail past the hatchery, you’ve gone past the farm he visited. Both eagles are also spending a lot of time just upstream of the nest and just out of our

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