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As The Nest Turns: Trempealeau Edition

February 3, 2026 RaptorResource

So what’s going on with our eagle thruple? A lot of you have asked why Mrs. T and Mrs. MNI tolerate one another. Bald eagle territories (the area they defend against other eagles) average 0.4–0.8 mi2 and the two nests are about .4 miles apart: much closer than the diameter of a typical defended territory. But Mrs. T. and Mrs. MNI appeared to have very few interactions as far as we could tell, with the females largely staying near their

The Xcel Energy Fort St. Vrain Eaglecam is Back!

January 29, 2026 RaptorResource

The Xcel Energy Fort St. Vrain Eaglecam is back online and we have a mystery on our hands! Fort St. Vrain male eagle Pa Jr. was banded. But the male eagle Ma is canoodling with now isn’t banded. Is he a new eagle? And what happened to Pa Jr. if he is? Watch here: https://www.raptorresource.org/birdcams/xcel-energy-cams/ Based on Ma’s comfort level, some watchers think Pa’s band fell off or he managed to remove it. Others – and I count myself in

January 22, 2026: NestFlix and News!

January 22, 2026 RaptorResource

Bitter cold is on the way, which means our eagles will diminish nest-building and territorial activity in favor of (relatively) warm sunny places out of the wind, including the lee side of hills and large limbs, dense stands of trees, and rocky outcrops. Don’t be worried if we don’t see much of them through the cold snap: stay warm like an eagle, kick your feet up, and enjoy our NestFlix! Decorah North Eagles The egg countdown is on! If DNF

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Landowner Spotlight: Myrna Buri

January 20, 2026 RaptorResource

We’re running an occasional series on our landowner partners to highlight their conservation work and show the many ways it is possible to take conservation action. Today, we’re featuring Myrna Buri, who also appeared in our 2025 newsletter: https://www.raptorresource.org/raptorresource/pdf/2025-winter-newsletter.pdf . Myrna’s cliff has produced 39 falcons since 2014. Myrna grew up in a farming family in Nelson, Wisconsin. In the early 1990s, after her father retired from farming, she and her younger brother began to explore putting the family’s farmland

Martin Luther King and Environmental Justice

January 19, 2026 RaptorResource

What is environmental justice and how does it connect to Martin Luther King and Martin Luther King Day? The environmental justice movement addresses a statistical fact: people who live, work and play in America’s most polluted environments are most commonly people of color and the poor. In his 1967 Christmas sermon, Dr. King preached that: “It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single

Can birds detect severe weather? Storms, cold, and Bald Eagles in winter!

January 19, 2026 RaptorResource

Can birds detect severe weather? I’m watching the birds at my feeder as a major snowstorm rolls in. American Golden Finches, Dark-Eyed Juncos, Black-Capped Chickadees, and White-Breasted Nuthatches are decimating my seed feeder, while our resident Downy, Hairy, Red-Bellied, and Pileated Woodpeckers clean out my suet feeder. The feeder action started yesterday. Did our birds know a major storm was on the way? While birds can’t predict long-range weather patterns, they have at least two ways to detect and prepare

When will our eagles lay eggs?

January 15, 2026 RaptorResource

When will the Decorah North, Trempealeau, and Fort St. Vrain eagles begin laying eggs? At the nests we monitor in Iowa and Colorado, Bald Eagles typically lay eggs 5-10 days after productive copulation begins. The past six years look like this… In 2025, DNF laid her first egg on February 11, Mrs. T laid her first egg on March 4, and Ma FSV laid her first egg on February 22. Once an egg-laying pattern is established, Bald Eagles tend to

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Your questions, answered: yes, we have a camera at N6!

January 10, 2026 RaptorResource

We’re getting questions about N6, a new nest next to Siewer’s Spring Road just north of the trout hatchery. We installed a camera in September, but didn’t add the infrastructure to connect it to the internet since we didn’t know whether the pair would use this nest or nest in N5, where HD has nested for the last two years. Since we’re pretty confident that the eagles have decided on N6, we spent Thursday and Friday connecting everything we need

January 6, 2026: Decorah North Nestflix

January 6, 2026 RaptorResource

Kick up your feet, grab a favorite snack – maybe some leftover Christmas cookies? – and get ready for NestFlix! DNF and Mr. North are busy hauling in sticks and soft materials to create an eggcellent nursery for this year’s egglets and eaglets, while their neighbors go about their lives beneath and around the nest. Owls, coyotes, squirrels, and other birds remind us that the eagles are part of a larger, active ecosystem: one that hums with life long after

Whooo’s That Owl?

January 6, 2026 RaptorResource

Whooo’s that owl? It’s probably one of these: Owls are a large and remarkably diverse group of birds, most active at night and found on every continent except Antarctica. More than 200 species, spread across 27 genera, occupy habitats ranging from deserts and grasslands to dense forests and wetlands. Their size varies dramatically: from the tiny Elf Owl, which weighs as little as 31 grams (about one ounce), to the imposing Blakiston’s Fish Owl, one of the heaviest owls in

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