Another Reason I Prefer Saint Paul

Joe Kimball's column notes something I saw last fall - the eagles are back on the Saint Paul riverfront.

M ore bald eagles are roosting on the Mississippi River near downtown St. Paul than river folks can ever recall.

Houseboat resident Anne Hunt saw a dozen perched early Wednesday in the area between the dock for the Padelford excursion boats and the University of Minnesota's Centennial Showboat. In other years, the most she has seen was five or six at a time....Jim Kosmo of the Padelford fleet saw 11 eagles perched in a cottonwood tree near his office one day, and then 14 in the area the next. "Madeline, the office cat, is afraid to go outside" he said.

I work near the riverfront, and the wildlife in Crosby Park is pretty amazing these days.

Sometimes scary, too. I was driving up the cliff from the riverfront into the Highland Park neighborhood during our last snowstorm. A deer pranced across the street in front of me. This is three miles from my house, deep in the middle of Saint Paul. Maybe the deer can drive off the raccoons in my neighborhood...

Pretty cool, anyway...

Posted by Mitch at March 8, 2005 06:33 AM | TrackBack