National Eagle Center

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

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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

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Mississippi River Valley Winter Eagle Count Red Wing (Colville Park) N/A Reads Landing 39 Wabasha 51 Alma 19 Buffalo City N/A Lock and Dam 5A 0 Counts taken on or around 12-10-09

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Hwy 52 South of Chatfield – herds of cattle grazinf in snow covered fields, 2 eagles

CR 8 – 2 eagles

Prairie Island, Winona – Distant swans, eagle nest, geese, ducks, 2 eagles

Hwy 61 (mm45) – 100’s of swans, 2 eagles

Hwy 74 (mm37) – Junkos, Jays, hawk, 7 eagles

Hwy 74 (mm26) – 3 hawks, deer

Keeper Rd, MN – 2 hawks

Rd4 (Plainview to Lake City) – Junkos, 2 Red tail hawks, rock doves, 5 eagles

Hwy 61 (Lake City to Reads Landing) – Many gulls, 2 eagles

Reads Landing – Eagle nest, 6 eagles

Wabasha Bridge Rd – 3 eagle nests

Hwy 35 ( South of Cedar Ridge Resort, WI) – 1000s of swans in the distance

Riecks Lake, WI – Red tail hawk, 2 eagles

Hwy 37 WI 35 ( Tell Lake) – 3 eagle nests, 1 eagle spotted

Submitted by NEC Volunteers – Ron Laack and Judy Ashonmacher

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I counted 24 Bald Eagles on my morning commute along highway 61 from Winona to the National Eagle Center this morning. The majority of the birds were flying however several were perched.

At least two pairs of Eagles were having a bit of a dispute over whose territory the River valley is.

For the first time today I saw a pair of Eagles sitting in the cottonwood tree on the riverbank in Wabasha. Cottonwood Eagle is typically alone in her roost.

The backwaters have begun to freeze. The Coots, Swans, Geese, and Ducks are now absent from Weaver Bottoms.

It seems that winter and the lick of our arctic neighbor Jack Frost has finally settled in for the season.

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