Glowing, shimmering and iridescent wild turkeys and how they get that way.

Sadly the two Decorah North eaglets have died from a black fly attack. But the three Decorah eaglets were born earlier and have a better chance at survival.

After a difficult start, the Decorah North eagles have two little hungry fuzzballs.

Decorah eagle update...unidentified male eagle helps mom with Decorahs.

In late spring and early summer black flies emerge from rivers and make life miserable for man, beasts and birds.

Look closely at the Rock River basin in Janesville and you may see eagles, owls, blue herons, deer, fox, beavers, and many other creatures. Today Glen Loyd spies baby birds.

The male eagle known to those who follow the eagle cam of the Raptor Research Project as Dad Decorah has been missing for over a week.

The Decorah north eagle pair had to start over after their solitary egg was broken prematurely. Well, these Decorah north eagles now have new eggs.

Exquisite close ups of all three Decorah eaglets eating at the same time.

We have 3 white fluff balls in the 2018 Decorah Eagles nest. And the answer to why birds rest on one leg.

Decorah, Iowa, eagle update: The solitary egg in the Decorah eagle north nest was broken and the pair is starting over again.

My video-editing computer is being repaired...So here is a golden oldie...Dancing pigeons!

Glen Loyd shows us a restless young male flock in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum.

Here's the latest from the Raptor Resource Decorah EagleCam.

Glen's video this week connects the Rock River, French Voyagers and the Parker Pen family's Seventeenth-Century maps.

A Decorah eagle food fight which occurred a week or so before an egg was laid and stars an adolescent eagle.

Like old cars and trains? Take a look at my classic 1939 Buick convertible.

The Decorah, Iowa eagles begin courtship in October, productive mating in late January or early February, and egg-laying in mid to late February.

Squirrels are a staple in the Decorah eagle diet, but in this video they get lucky.

Decorah eagles flying, floating, flapping, circling, courting and sunning.

There are a lot of legends and lore about the nocturnal owl and the moon.

A talon is the claw of a bird of prey, its primary hunting tool. Eagles have 4 talons on each foot.

Crows seem to be distracting a Decorah eagle eating lunch hoping to steal it.

Decorah, IA eagles splashing, courting, and repairing nests

Cardinals and colorful birdfeeder cousins stay with us in winter and cheer us with their wonderful antics...a Christmas ornament from the past.

Thanks to Frank Schultz and Solo_Voce for their entertaining reactions to my videos.

What's more appropriate at Thanksgiving than the Amazing Dancing Turkeys I encountered at UW Arboretum?

While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,

This story revolves around singer Niall Horan from One Direction.

"Monet wishes his own art could excite critics as much as trains captivate his son." -- "Claude Monet::The Painter Who Stopped the Trains"

Artist Vincent Van Gogh may have had a difficult life, but so many of his paintings make me feel good!

This week, I spent some time with a beautiful lady...a Painted Lady butterfly.

Follow the Rock River down to the Mississippi and you will find yourself in Rock Island Illinois, an important city in railroad history.

The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad was founded in Rock Island, Illinois in 1851.

Next time you go fishing, please clean up discarded hooks and lines and trash. You may be saving wildlife you love.

Wisconsin pioneers of the 1830s and '40s--largely Irish, German and Scandinavian immigrants--came west on paddle-wheel steamboats.

If you want to see children smile, take them fishing.

Take a historic train ride out west with Glen Loyd. All aboard!

We are seeing more and more pelicans in Wisconsin.