2009-12-28_GoldenEagleTrappingScouting
We scouted the valley today to see if this was a good place to trap.
We scouted the valley today to see if this was a good place to trap.
Mississippi River Valley Winter Eagle Count Red Wing (Colville Park) N/A Reads Landing 172 Wabasha 59 Alma 244 Buffalo City 71 Lock and Dam 5A 70 Counts taken on or around 12-30-09 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/
Here are the numbers for this weeks official bald eagle count. Buffalo City 9 7 adults 2 immature Alma 21 17 adults 4 imm Reads Landing 164 118 adults 46 imm also thousands of common mergansers, and common goldeneyes and an assortment of other waterfowl including tundra swans, trumpeter swans, mallards, buffleheads, canvasbacks, green-winged teal, gadwall, lesser scaup, redhead, ring-billed gull and herring gull. Wabasha 246 155 adults 91 imm
Hwy 42 (Plainview to Hwy 61) – Downy woodpecker, 2 kestrels, jays, 7 eagles
Hwy 61 ( 42 to Wabasha) – 6 blue jays, 3 eagles
Reads Landing – Blue Jay, hairy woodpecker, many ducks, geese, gulls, snow capped eagle nest, 106 eagles
Lake Pepin – 13 eagles
Wabasha Deck – 200+ merganzers, 100+ gulls, 1000s of ducks, snow on the bridge eagle nest, 57 eagles
Submitted by NEC Volunteers – Ron Laack and Judy Ashonmacher