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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