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2023 RRP Highlights: Sweet Eaglet Dreams!

April 14, 2023: Sweet Eaglet Dreams, DH2!

We’re looking back on 2023’s favorite things! Sometimes we all need to take a break, especially during the busy holiday season. Let peacefully slumbering eaglet DH2 be an inspiration to all of us. Sweet eaglet dreams, everyone – I think it’s time for me to hit the corn husks! Do eagles dream? If you watch the video, you’ll hear DH2 vocalize twice and begin to stir before settling into a deeper sleep. The behavior appears remarkably similar to the dreamy

2023 RRP Highlights: Make Way for Goslings!

April 18, 2023: Mother Goose!

We’re looking back on 2023’s favorite things! In my experience, watchers either love them or loathe the Canada Geese. I grew up around geese and understand why some people don’t like them. But I’m in the heart-eyes-emoji camp! These geese are nesting in an abandoned bald eagle nest that we call N2B. Mom and her mate DM2 last nested here in 2020. After they left to build a new nest, N2B sat empty until a pair of geese adopted it

2023 RRP Highlights: Savanna feeds her new hatchlings

May 10, 2023: Savanna feeds her new hatchlings.

We’re continuing our 2023 highlights with a look at Peregrine Falcon Savanna. Savanna, who nested at Great Spirit Bluff with Newman this year, was a 2019 hatch from Bank of the West in Fargo, MN. Savanna was named after Savanna Greywind, a young Native American woman who was murdered in 2017. We were thrilled to see Savanna’s namesake falcon show up at GSB this spring. Falcons instinctively respond to their offspring’s vocalizations and needs, but first-time parents don’t always understand

2023 RRP Highlights: Shelter from the Storm

May 14, 2023: Shelter from the Storm

We’re looking back on 2023’s favorite things! I picked this one. Although HD is soaking wet and shivering with cold, he carefully folds his body around DH2 to shelter his not-so-little eaglet from the icy slashing storm. DH2 is 38 days old. Bald eagles go to great lengths to care for their young. They spend months preparing for egg-laying, over a month incubating eggs through sub-zero winter weather, another 70-80 days caring for eaglets in the nest, and still another

2023 RRP Highlights: HD feeds eaglet DH2 for the first time!

April 11, 2023: HD feeds DH2 for the first time.

We’re looking back on 2023’s favorite things! Tonight’s memory lane moment was selected by chat mod Glogdog! She wrote: “HD’s first feeding of DH2 was momentous! For all of us to get to watch a new Dad do this for the first time was really cool!” We suspected that HD and HM were first time nesters. While they had the instincts to care for their young, they didn’t know what needed to be done. Feeding was a process of trial

Watching Bald Eagles

November 7, 2017: Dad Decorah

This is a flashback post first published on April 26 of 2012. I repost it every year when the eagles begin bringing suckerfish into the nest. For new followers: Bob (Anderson) founded the Raptor Resource Project and was its first director. You can learn more about him here: https://www.raptorresource.org/about-us/remembering-bob-anderson/ Bob took a turn operating the controls at the bald eagle camera this morning. He was fascinated by Dad, who brought in three suckers in one hour. Suckerfish are ‘rough’ fish:

2022 Memory Lane Moments: Postcards from our Eagles!

D36 on August 17, 2020. We didn't see him until John found him on July 17, 2022. He looks wonderful: strong, healthy, and a master of the skies!

Who else was thrilled to get postcards from D36, D27, and Golden Eagles 731 and 733? I loved opening my mailbox (well, email inbox) and getting letters from Brett and Ryan with all of the latest details on our eagles. Let’s take a look back at their year! Bald Eagle D36 | Parents: Mom and DM2 | Age: Two | Age Classification: Subadult D36 took an Iowa staycation this year! He wandered down to Tama, Iowa, roughly 100 miles SW

2022 Memory Lane Moments: The Leap of Faith!

April 28, 2022: The goslings about 36 hours after hatch.

Memory Lane Moment #4 comes from mod IrisCats, who wrote: “How could we ever forget the goslings’ heart pumping leap of faith as they jumped from N2B?!” This was far and away our most watched moment of the year. While Canada Geese remain a controversial subject – some of you love them and some of you don’t! – it was fun to learn about and watch a new species. Mother Goose laid seven eggs. Five eggs hatched, four geese survived

2022 Memory Lane Moments: A Feeding and a Pip!

March 27, 2022: A feeding and a pip at the North nest!

Memory Lane Moment #3 comes from me! There was a lot to love at the North nest this year. The Norths have a strong bond, their valley is beautiful, and DN15 and DN16 were wonderful from hatch to fledge! The North nest felt like a tiny slice of paradise in the rolling hills of NE Iowa: a place to relax and dream under blue skies, rippling water, and lush greenery. DN15 completed hatch sometime in the late evening of March

2022 Memory Lane Moments: Snowy Owls on the Mississippi Flyway

February 16, 2022: A Snowy Owl on the Mississippi River Flyway.

Memory Lane Moment #2 comes from Lori Carnes! She wrote: “My favorite thing this past year was watching and learning about the snowy owls with our Mississippi Flyway chatters!” Watchers might remember the incredible Snowy Owl irruption on the Flyway in January and February of this year. What were they doing so far from their arctic home? Some species are normally resident on their territories year-round (like Great Horned Owls and Barred Owls), some species are more or less migratory

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