Glen admits he almost trampled a woman and small children running away from mosquitoes.

My videos are often about birds. Today, it's about a steam locomotive called the Tornado. But there is a connection between birds and steam trains.

The hawk in my video seems to sway with the music. I think it may be a red-tailed hawk.

What was this squirrel thinking, creeping so close to an eagle? He could have lost his tail or even his life.

This is a follow up to last week's purple martin video. Meet the birds' favorite person: Purple Martin Man.

Humans supply virtually all the nesting homes for purple martins.

Good news! The hazardous waste by the Rock River in Janesville has been cleaned up.

I was filming a great blue heron on Black Hawk Island when I discovered a great band--Gary The Band--a trio of handsome young men playing at the Riverside Resort.

When I discovered the creosote spill I am reporting on today, I contacted the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad (WSOR), WI Department of Natural Resources, and the US Dept of Agriculture Forest Products Lab.

The Decorah trio slowly moves away from the nest like exploring the nearby creek.

I hope you will enjoy my Decorah eagle fledgling music video as we celebrate the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

Flying now, the Decorah eagles were babies just a few weeks ago.

Although I edit and add music to these Decorah eagle videos, most of the credit should go the the Raptor Resource Project and its cameras.

Thank you, Raptor Resource Project, for letting us observe the Decorah eaglets so closely!

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.