Snow Moon The Native American name for the February full moon is the "Snow Moon."  This year that occurred on February 9th. Wacouta Pond...

Frozen River Ever since the Prairie Island Nuclear plant became operational in the early 1970's. the warm water discharge at the plant...

Mergansers and Goldeneyes On December 20th, I received an email from our Wacouta neighbors Dan and Diane Mueller reporting a remarkable...

Icy Reflection As I mentioned in my last post, the water level on the river has continued to remain abnormally high throughout the entire...

First Dusting of Snow I woke up the morning of October 29th to a dusting of our first snow of the season. It would turn out to provide...

High Water at the Head of Lake Pepin It seems as though the Mississippi River has been abnormally high since the spring snow melt in...

Beaver Activity In my last post, I gave you an update on all the wildlife activity in and around the beaver pond adjacent to Goodhue...

Double Rainbows Since starting Wacouta Nature Notes a couple years ago, I have come to realize that some of my most unusual experiences...

Resident Canada Geese On the morning of July 29th, I observed our resident flock of Canada geese checking out the bike trail crossing on...

High Water on Wacouta Pond "Why has the water in Wacouta pond stayed so high for so long?" Without a doubt this has been the most...

Rattlesnake Bluff and Final Soybean Crop This photo is a reminder to all of us that the soybean crop in this field and two adjoining...

Goose and Goslings For the last two weeks of April and first two weeks of May, folks turning off Highway 61 onto Wacouta Rd. were greeted...

Pasque Flowers On April 20th, I had the opportunity to celebrate "Earth Day" by participating in an event sponsored by the Friends Of The...

Pair of Canada Geese After reaching a high temperature of 72 degrees on April 8th, things went downhill remarkably fast. 48 hours later...

Flooded Field This was a most unusual winter with no snow until mid-January allowing for deep frost penetration. This was followed by...

Sign Along Wacouta Road For the past several years, I have been yearning for a winter featuring snow conditions supportive of a few weeks...

Negative 30 With an invitation from our Wacouta neighbor Sue Milbright, I was able to document the coldest temperature recorded in our...

Ice Floe Prior to the recent cold snap, there were vast stretches of open water on Lake Pepin with numerous ice flows moving along. Ice...

Sunrise at the Head of Lake Pepin Ever since mid-November our daily high temperatures have vacillated between the low 20's and high 40's....

Low Clouds Over Lake Pepin If you had the impression the sun took a sabbatical during the month of November, you were probably right. ...