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HDT Team
- May 1, 2020
- 5 min
Spring Birding for Conservation
Looking for something to keep you busy? Birding is the perfect activity to enjoy while social distancing and your observations can help...
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HDT Team
- May 30, 2018
- 2 min
2018 T-Shirt Design Contest
During the summer, Happy Dancing Turtle offers four weeks of Eco Camp, week-long environmental day camps, for Pre-K through 6th grade...
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HDT Team
- May 14, 2018
- 3 min
Nature Notes: Birding Bonanza in the Driftless Region
The Trempealeau Hotel, a quintessential restaurant of the Driftless Region located in a historic building from the 1880s. It is one of...
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HDT Team
- Mar 11, 2018
- 4 min
Nature Notes: Territorial Tunes
I spent the first “spring heat wave” of March exploring the backwaters of the Mississippi River in the Trempealeau Wildlife Refuge. Down...
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HDT Team
- Mar 24, 2017
- 3 min
Nature Notes: Singing Sandhills
Last weekend I took a road trip to south-central Nebraska to try to catch a glimpse of the migrating Sandhill cranes, a task I thought...
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HDT Team
- Nov 30, 2016
- 5 min
Nature Notes: Caching Chickadees
As winter approaches, we are seeing many changes in our bird populations. Some birds, like robins, have formed large flocks and are...