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Finally Winter
Sunrise over Rattlesnake Bluff Despite the fact that Wacouta didn't receive any snow from the big storm system that pushed through...
Bruce Ause
Nov 20, 2016
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Longest Growing Season on Record
Winter Rye and Rattlesnake Bluff With records for November warm weather being shattered on a daily basis, the growing season continues. ...
Bruce Ause
Nov 12, 2016
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Past Peak Color
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...
Bruce Ause
Nov 1, 2016
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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...
Bruce Ause
Oct 20, 2016
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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...
Bruce Ause
Oct 10, 2016
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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...
Bruce Ause
Sep 28, 2016
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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...
Bruce Ause
Sep 20, 2016
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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...
Bruce Ause
Sep 13, 2016
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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...
Bruce Ause
Sep 5, 2016
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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....
Bruce Ause
Aug 31, 2016
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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...
Bruce Ause
Aug 24, 2016
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Cardinal Flowers and Hummingbirds
Conditions this summer have been ideal for cardinal flowers like this concentration in the silver maple bottomland forest adjacent to...
Bruce Ause
Aug 16, 2016
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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...
Bruce Ause
Aug 10, 2016
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