No Frost Yet/Warm Weather Continues
Rattlesnake Bluff as seen from Wacouta Pond Despite the lack of a hard killing freeze yet, the fall colors are continuing to develop in...
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Bruce Ause
Oct 10, 2016
Finally Some Color
The peak colors for the Wacouta area are at least a week to ten days late this year. That could be attributed to all the moisture this...
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Bruce Ause
Sep 28, 2016
Stuck in Transition Between Summer and Fall
Bluffs overlooking Wacouta As one can see, there still is very little color showing up on the bluffs of Wacouta as of Sunday September...
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Bruce Ause
Sep 20, 2016
Migration And A New Discovery
White Pelicans On Friday September 16th, I observed the first significant flock of white pelicans at the Head of Lake Pepin. There were...
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Bruce Ause
Sep 14, 2016
Landscape Colors are Beginning to Change
Sumac and Goldenrod During this past week, the most notable color changes on our natural landscape have been provided by red leaves on...
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Bruce Ause
Sep 5, 2016
Cedar Waxwings- Approaching Fall Season
Ripe Mountain Ash Berries We have now entered into the meteorological fall season with considerable evidence of that transition. It is a...
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Bruce Ause
Aug 31, 2016
Canoeing the Flooded Backwater of Wacouta Bay
The changing colors seen in these silver maples is no doubt due to the stress of the high-water rather that the approaching fall season....
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Bruce Ause
Aug 24, 2016
High water all summer- The New Normal
Cannon River today at 8.7 feet. Normal conditions in August would be 3 feet It wasn't all that many years ago that one could expect...
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Bruce Ause
Aug 17, 2016
Cardinal Flowers and Hummingbirds
Conditions this summer have been ideal for cardinal flowers like this concentration in the silver maple bottomland forest adjacent to...
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Bruce Ause
Aug 10, 2016
Harvesting Winter Rye
On Sunday July 25, local farmer Dan Tipke harvested his crop of winter rye from the field at the base of Rattlesnake Bluff. In recent...
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