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...

Adult Eagle perching Depending on the weather, fall migration for eagles and diving ducks ranges from the end of November to mid-December....

Pileated Woodpeckers Despite the open conditions and unseasonably warm temperatures through December 3rd, we are experiencing exciting...

Sunrise over Rattlesnake Bluff Despite the fact that Wacouta didn't receive any snow from the big storm system that pushed through...

Winter Rye and Rattlesnake Bluff With records for November warm weather being shattered on a daily basis, the growing season continues. ...

View of lower Wacouta from the bluff top looking east Peak color in the Wacouta area was on or around October 19th when this photo was...

Rattlesnake Bluff as seen from Wacouta Pond Despite the lack of a hard killing freeze yet, the fall colors are continuing to develop in...

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...

Bluffs overlooking Wacouta As one can see, there still is very little color showing up on the bluffs of Wacouta as of Sunday September...

White Pelicans On Friday September 16th, I observed the first significant flock of white pelicans at the Head of Lake Pepin. There were...

Sumac and Goldenrod During this past week, the most notable color changes on our natural landscape have been provided by red leaves on...

Ripe Mountain Ash Berries We have now entered into the meteorological fall season with considerable evidence of that transition. It is a...

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....

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...

Conditions this summer have been ideal for cardinal flowers like this concentration in the silver maple bottomland forest adjacent to...

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...