Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
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Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
3:29pm
HM perched on this snowy day
HM perched on this snowy day
Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
7:04pm Snowing .I think HM and HD are roosting here
HM and HD
Earlier fron the DVR
Goodnight HM and HD ..Bonjour Philjo
HM and HD
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Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
around 15h00
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Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
Goodnight/ morning Decorah, Bonjour Bev, ...!
11-16-2022
00h10 Light snow
11-16-2022
00h10 Light snow
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Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
06h13 Still snowing and i didn't notice before that our eagles were together on that branch
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Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
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We have your Decorah and Decorah North Eagles! It was a beautiful snow globe day at both nests today, with plenty of fishing, stick deliveries, and a brief moo-rade. I liked all of these videos, but I especially enjoyed the retention pond fishing tournament, the great horned owl vocalizations near the North nest, and DNF's giant stick. As always, thanks to our camera operators and videomakers for finding and sharing such special moments, and to you for watching, learning, and especially for caring. We hope you like these videos as much as we did!
Decorah Eagles
November 15, 2022: HM vocals, HD goes fishing - https://youtu.be/UwqQVWtOTjo. It's our first big snow day! Fluffy white snowflakes blanket the Y-Branch, where HM is vocalizing, drift over the retention pond, where HD is fishing, and dust N1 in a blanket of white. HM hop-flaps to the nest at 2:26 and begins pulling nesting materials from beneath the snow. HD and HM will spend the next few months racing the snow and cold to create a nestbowl and cup that will keep their eggs warm and dry through snowstorms and late winter rain.
I liked this whole video, but I really enjoyed the fishing activity at 18 seconds and 5:35! I love seeing bald eagles in the snow.
November 14, 2022: Fishing tournament, HD & 2 SA's fish the pond - https://youtu.be/wH2kTsrb0aQ. Busy eagleport or fishing contest? HD and two subadults fish the retention pond. This is a very cool video.
D36 has been hanging out 10 to 15 miles west of Decorah, but I'll be very curious to see whether one of these eagles turns out to be him. Did he decide to visit the old home place? We should know soon! Adult territorial bald eagles are often more tolerant of juveniles and subadults. They can be a nuisance, but aren't a threat to the adults or their bond. We don't believe that bald eagles recognize their offspring after they disperse, since plumage and vocalizations change quite a bit! But perhaps bald eagles that have hatched a lot of offspring are more tolerant in general: a sort of back of the envelope calculus that recognizes any given juvenile or subadult in their territory could be offspring. We discussed eagle generations in this blog: https://www.raptorresource.org/.../coul ... -hm-be-one.../.
November 11, 2022: HM close-ups on the Y - https://youtu.be/nRPJLlCHkVY. A wonderful look at a very handsome eagle! Still struggling with ID? We've got a blog here! https://www.raptorresource.org/.../eagle-id-how-do-you.../
Decorah North Eagles
October 14, 2022: Great horned owls are active near the nest - https://youtu.be/d7Id4Iiavj0. The audio is incredible! I emailed Karla Bloem from The International Owl Center and asked her what was going on! Was the screeching a GHO? She said: "Yes, that is all GHO talking, including the crazy squawks and wild hoots. Someone may have gotten grabbed or something early on...Intense stuff!"
October 14, 2022: DNF works hard to get a stick to the nest - https://youtu.be/s6YLNPJzrzE. We see DNF carrying a stick at 1:26. She lands on the love tree and rests for a couple minutes. The stick is too heavy and the distance is too short for her to gain enough lift to make it to the nest, so she flies out across the pasture at about 2:56 and circles back around, gaining lift and a tail wind assist as she finally gets her stick to the nest!
Take a look at where she places her prize. There is a whole pile of new similarly-sized sticks thanks to DNF's hard work especially. While both eagles bring sticks to the nest, she's the larger of the pair and so tends to break off and haul in bigger, wonkier sticks! How much weight can an eagle carry? We have a blog about that! https://www.raptorresource.org/.../how- ... ight-can-a.../
October 14, 2022: DNF digs out the nest bowl and tries it out - https://youtu.be/A9kFIgiLRik. Beautiful DNF gleams in the sunlight as she lays down and scrapes in the nest bowl before giving it a test. Take a look at the top of her tail beneath her lovely brown feathers - a very neat view and something we don't often see.
Odds and Ends
We had our first big snow of the year, so it's time to listen to Snow Days! Enjoy our snowy tradition: https://youtu.be/_y9p9tWB_Jc.
Raptor Resource Project
11 h ·
We have your Decorah and Decorah North Eagles! It was a beautiful snow globe day at both nests today, with plenty of fishing, stick deliveries, and a brief moo-rade. I liked all of these videos, but I especially enjoyed the retention pond fishing tournament, the great horned owl vocalizations near the North nest, and DNF's giant stick. As always, thanks to our camera operators and videomakers for finding and sharing such special moments, and to you for watching, learning, and especially for caring. We hope you like these videos as much as we did!
Decorah Eagles
November 15, 2022: HM vocals, HD goes fishing - https://youtu.be/UwqQVWtOTjo. It's our first big snow day! Fluffy white snowflakes blanket the Y-Branch, where HM is vocalizing, drift over the retention pond, where HD is fishing, and dust N1 in a blanket of white. HM hop-flaps to the nest at 2:26 and begins pulling nesting materials from beneath the snow. HD and HM will spend the next few months racing the snow and cold to create a nestbowl and cup that will keep their eggs warm and dry through snowstorms and late winter rain.
I liked this whole video, but I really enjoyed the fishing activity at 18 seconds and 5:35! I love seeing bald eagles in the snow.
November 14, 2022: Fishing tournament, HD & 2 SA's fish the pond - https://youtu.be/wH2kTsrb0aQ. Busy eagleport or fishing contest? HD and two subadults fish the retention pond. This is a very cool video.
D36 has been hanging out 10 to 15 miles west of Decorah, but I'll be very curious to see whether one of these eagles turns out to be him. Did he decide to visit the old home place? We should know soon! Adult territorial bald eagles are often more tolerant of juveniles and subadults. They can be a nuisance, but aren't a threat to the adults or their bond. We don't believe that bald eagles recognize their offspring after they disperse, since plumage and vocalizations change quite a bit! But perhaps bald eagles that have hatched a lot of offspring are more tolerant in general: a sort of back of the envelope calculus that recognizes any given juvenile or subadult in their territory could be offspring. We discussed eagle generations in this blog: https://www.raptorresource.org/.../coul ... -hm-be-one.../.
November 11, 2022: HM close-ups on the Y - https://youtu.be/nRPJLlCHkVY. A wonderful look at a very handsome eagle! Still struggling with ID? We've got a blog here! https://www.raptorresource.org/.../eagle-id-how-do-you.../
Decorah North Eagles
October 14, 2022: Great horned owls are active near the nest - https://youtu.be/d7Id4Iiavj0. The audio is incredible! I emailed Karla Bloem from The International Owl Center and asked her what was going on! Was the screeching a GHO? She said: "Yes, that is all GHO talking, including the crazy squawks and wild hoots. Someone may have gotten grabbed or something early on...Intense stuff!"
October 14, 2022: DNF works hard to get a stick to the nest - https://youtu.be/s6YLNPJzrzE. We see DNF carrying a stick at 1:26. She lands on the love tree and rests for a couple minutes. The stick is too heavy and the distance is too short for her to gain enough lift to make it to the nest, so she flies out across the pasture at about 2:56 and circles back around, gaining lift and a tail wind assist as she finally gets her stick to the nest!
Take a look at where she places her prize. There is a whole pile of new similarly-sized sticks thanks to DNF's hard work especially. While both eagles bring sticks to the nest, she's the larger of the pair and so tends to break off and haul in bigger, wonkier sticks! How much weight can an eagle carry? We have a blog about that! https://www.raptorresource.org/.../how- ... ight-can-a.../
October 14, 2022: DNF digs out the nest bowl and tries it out - https://youtu.be/A9kFIgiLRik. Beautiful DNF gleams in the sunlight as she lays down and scrapes in the nest bowl before giving it a test. Take a look at the top of her tail beneath her lovely brown feathers - a very neat view and something we don't often see.
Odds and Ends
We had our first big snow of the year, so it's time to listen to Snow Days! Enjoy our snowy tradition: https://youtu.be/_y9p9tWB_Jc.
Last edited by Philjo56France on Wed Nov 16, 2022 4:38 am, edited 1 time in total.
E9: 7 yo / † E14 †
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Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
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Thanks for the airmail, D36! Two-year old bald eagle D36 sent us another postcard from the Turkey River near Spillville, Iowa: seemingly his new favorite hang and the place he's spent the most time on his Iowa staycation! With winter finally moving in, it's no surprise that he's sticking to the steep valleys and flowing water of the Turkey. Given the eagles we're seeing on the Flyway and wandering through Decorah, he should have plenty of company in the next couple of weeks!
We haven't heard from D27 in three or four weeks now. This isn't a bad sign for her, since she was moving around and behaving normally before her transmitter stopped talking to us. This could be temporary - it is not uncommon to lose touch with our eagles during the lean solar months of November, December, and January - but I thought it would be fun to look at some highlights from her travels.
We started tracking her on August 9 of 2017, where she first sent us a postcard just a hundred feet or so from her natal nest. As long-time followers might recall, she wasn't especially easy to catch! Brett wrote a blog about it called 'Persistence pays off!": https://www.raptorresource.org/.../persistence-pays-off.../.
D27 has traveled 19,234 miles since we started tracking her. She has tended to summer in NW Ontario, although this year she made it into Manitoba - the farthest north that any of our eagles have have ever traveled. At her northernmost point, she was 883 miles due north of her natal nest! While D1 flew a greater distance to reach Hudson's Bay, she was still a little south of sister D27's Manitoba location. D27 flew an incredible 619.4 miles in five days on fall migration this year, for an average of 123 miles per day. We last heard from her in the Clermont, Iowa area.
I looked up a few favorite maps and events from D27's travels. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do and we'll let you know if she checks in again! Thanks so much to Brett Mandernack, Ryan Schmitz, and the staff at Eagle Valley for sharing their maps, data, and expertise.
To explore the travels of any of the eagles we've tracked, visit our interactive maps at https://www.raptorresource.org/learning ... eagle-map/. To read through their reports, go to https://www.raptorresource.org/tag/eagle-maps/.
Raptor Resource Project
1 j
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Thanks for the airmail, D36! Two-year old bald eagle D36 sent us another postcard from the Turkey River near Spillville, Iowa: seemingly his new favorite hang and the place he's spent the most time on his Iowa staycation! With winter finally moving in, it's no surprise that he's sticking to the steep valleys and flowing water of the Turkey. Given the eagles we're seeing on the Flyway and wandering through Decorah, he should have plenty of company in the next couple of weeks!
We haven't heard from D27 in three or four weeks now. This isn't a bad sign for her, since she was moving around and behaving normally before her transmitter stopped talking to us. This could be temporary - it is not uncommon to lose touch with our eagles during the lean solar months of November, December, and January - but I thought it would be fun to look at some highlights from her travels.
We started tracking her on August 9 of 2017, where she first sent us a postcard just a hundred feet or so from her natal nest. As long-time followers might recall, she wasn't especially easy to catch! Brett wrote a blog about it called 'Persistence pays off!": https://www.raptorresource.org/.../persistence-pays-off.../.
D27 has traveled 19,234 miles since we started tracking her. She has tended to summer in NW Ontario, although this year she made it into Manitoba - the farthest north that any of our eagles have have ever traveled. At her northernmost point, she was 883 miles due north of her natal nest! While D1 flew a greater distance to reach Hudson's Bay, she was still a little south of sister D27's Manitoba location. D27 flew an incredible 619.4 miles in five days on fall migration this year, for an average of 123 miles per day. We last heard from her in the Clermont, Iowa area.
I looked up a few favorite maps and events from D27's travels. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do and we'll let you know if she checks in again! Thanks so much to Brett Mandernack, Ryan Schmitz, and the staff at Eagle Valley for sharing their maps, data, and expertise.
To explore the travels of any of the eagles we've tracked, visit our interactive maps at https://www.raptorresource.org/learning ... eagle-map/. To read through their reports, go to https://www.raptorresource.org/tag/eagle-maps/.
E9: 7 yo / † E14 †
One day in the wild is worth a lifetime in a cage. B.Shofstall
RIP 2017 to 2023-2024
One day in the wild is worth a lifetime in a cage. B.Shofstall
RIP 2017 to 2023-2024
Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
Good Morning Decorah .Bonjour Philjo
Weather Report Both working in the nest
Weather Report Both working in the nest
Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
HM Left
She is on the Branch
Zoomer mièvre the Cam HD is biting on the bark on the trunk of the tree
Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
Down in the nest
Zooner moved the cam
HM is leaving Zoo mer tried ro follow her No Luck HD is here
Zooner moved the cam
HM is leaving Zoo mer tried ro follow her No Luck HD is here
Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
6:05pm
Dark at the snow filled nest From the DVR
HD and HM on the branch One came to the nest
Dark at the snow filled nest From the DVR
HD and HM on the branch One came to the nest
Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
Moved up
And left
Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
Windy at the snow filled nest
Bonjour Philjo
Goodnight H M and HD
Bonjour Philjo
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Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
14h10
17h10 E9: 7 yo / † E14 †
One day in the wild is worth a lifetime in a cage. B.Shofstall
RIP 2017 to 2023-2024
One day in the wild is worth a lifetime in a cage. B.Shofstall
RIP 2017 to 2023-2024
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Re: Decorah Iowa - 2022-23 - Bald Eagle Cam
Goodnight/ morning Decorah, Bonjour Bev, ...!
11-17-2022
00h10
11-17-2022
00h10
E9: 7 yo / † E14 †
One day in the wild is worth a lifetime in a cage. B.Shofstall
RIP 2017 to 2023-2024
One day in the wild is worth a lifetime in a cage. B.Shofstall
RIP 2017 to 2023-2024