Ruby- Throated Hummingbird For most of the summer, we have had very few hummingbirds at our nectar feeders. That all changed about two...

White Pelicans With the more normal summer river levels of the past couple weeks, I have received numerous local reports of large flocks...

Turkey Vultures In my most recent post, I reported that we were in the midst of the peak of the annual mayfly hatch. Many adult mayflies...

Mayflies The annual arrival of mayflies is now upon us. It started shortly after the 4th of July. This phenomenon is a positive...

Butterfly Weed For those of you fortunate enough to hike, bike or take other forms of transportation along the Rattlesnake Bluff trail in...

Northern Flicker Hatchlings As I reported in my May 14th post, we discovered that a pair of northern flickers had excavated a cavity for...

Cottonwood Seeds Those of us living in Wacouta and along the Mississippi River are well aware that early June is the time for seed...

Flooded Lowland Forest With the copious amount of rainfall in the past ten days, the Mississippi River has risen several feet to the...

Bluebird Nest We are in the midst of a very active period for the avian nesting season this spring. On April 27th, I opened one of my...

Leaves coming out on bluff behind Wacouta Bay Since my last post, there has been a plethora of evidence that full blown spring is upon us....

Beaver Lodge On my posting from March 25th, I reported about the current beaver dam construction on and around Bullard Creek. As I...

Drake and Hen Wood Duck Since my last posting on our blog, many species of waterfowl have arrived in our area from their winter haunts. ...

First Barge of the Season The average date for the first barge of the spring to pass through the Hastings lock and dam # 2 is March 22nd....

Eagle Nesting Despite the fact that the Minnesota DNR had a camera featuring an active bald eagle nest in the metro as early as January,...

Male Cardinal Starting the second week of February, spring arrived with a bang. With the unseasonably warm weather, several signs of...

Bald Eagle Nest near Wacouta Pond Unless we receive a big dump of spring snow, it looks as if my cross country skiing outings in Wacouta...

View of Wacouta from the top of Rattlesnake Bluff Despite the fact that we had a string of 8 days the last part of January where high...

Ice Covered Norway Pine Needles One of the effects of global climate change is very erratic and intense weather events. It seems as...

Winter View of Lake Pepin With the most unusual winter we have experienced this year, I decided to go for a walk down to the Head of Lake...

Wacouta neighbor Suzanne Blue shares her photo of the sunrise over Rattlesnake Bluff flanked by two spectacular sundogs around 9:00 am on...