Sunrise over Rattlesnake Bluff At sunrise the earth is rotating towards the sun. As we approach the winter solstice, the northern...

Lone White Pelican After spending time deer hunting and visiting our daughter and granddaughter in North Carolina these past couple...

Wacouta Fall Colors According to the Minnesota DNR website on October 20th, leaf color changes in Goodhue County were at about 50%. This...

Raspberries Despite the fact that earlier in the summer iridescent copper and green colored Japanese beetles nearly defoliated my...

New England Asters As we encountered the fall equinox this past Friday, There is further evidence along the Rattlesnake Bluff Trail that...

Monarch and Blazing Star During the past couple weeks, I have observed more monarchs butterflies than in quite sometime. On Sunday...

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,...