Summer update – end of July
Summer has gone quickly. Many birds have successfully raised babies and the new ones are flying around. The pair of Peregrine Falcons on the Red Wing Grain tower raised four…
Summer has gone quickly. Many birds have successfully raised babies and the new ones are flying around. The pair of Peregrine Falcons on the Red Wing Grain tower raised four…
Birdcast reported over three million birds crossed Goodhue County last night. We've seen and heard many kinds of birds at the parks. Multiple eagle nests have babies and the Peregrine…
Peregrine Falcons using the nest box on the Red Wing Grain tower have eggs now! She laid her first egg in the last few minutes of Easter evening and may…
It was windy and warmer today, which brought a number of eagles and vultures to He Mni Can/Barn Bluff. I saw many of both fly over the east overlook. Lower…
We are expecting some eagle eggs to hatch in the next week, with incubation time being around 36 days. We have seen at least seven eagle nests around Red Wing…
Nearly every nest we watch around Red Wing appears to have a female laying or incubating eggs. A few other immature eagles are still hanging around and get chased away…
Eagles of all ages have been busy at Bay Point Park, because fisherman left a few fish on the ice. The heron rookery is full of Great Blue Herons preparing…
Some new waterfowl arrived, including Northern Shovelers, Green-winged Teals, Hooded Mergansers, and others. Noisy Red-winged Blackbirds and Common Grackles are seen around marshes and in trees. American Robins are here…
In blizzard conditions, Red Wing received over 8 inches of wet heavy snow that stuck to everything. Luckily, none of the local eagle nests were taken down by the storm.…