Week of June 22nd - 28th

We welcomed Stringwood, Camp Moon Hwa, MN Association of Soil & Water, Scheels Hunting & Archery University, John Marshall High School, Mayo High School, Camp Kingswood, and Bethlehem Lutheran Church.

Stringwood is a camp for string instrument players such as Violin, Viola, Cello, etc. and their students arrived on June 14th. They spent two weeks at Eagle Bluff rehearsing and playing shows around Lanesboro.
Camp Moon Hwa brought their 7th-9th graders to Eagle Bluff on Tuesday and Wednesday. The groups went Canoeing and up on South Treetops.

The MN Association of Soil and Water arrived on Tuesday for a stay until Thursday. They gathered at Eagle Bluff to meet with each other.

Scheels Hunting and Archery University also arrived on Tuesday. Employees from the Scheels store stayed at Eagle Bluff until Friday learning about different bows in order to be able to sell them better.

John Marshall High School arrived on Thursday to take potential honor students on Treetops.

Mayo High School also arrived on Thursday to take potential honor students on Treetops.

Camp Kingswood brought some 4th-6th grade campers to Eagle Bluff to do some fishing.

The 7th-12th graders at Bethlehem Lutheran Church arrived on Friday and stayed until Sunday. They experienced Pioneer Life, Canoeing, and East Treetops while they were here.

Phenology:

• Butterfly Weed is blooming. See picture above.
  
• American Robins are feeding their second brood of young for the year.

Thought for the Week:
"We live for those fantastic and unreal moments of beauty which our thoughts may build upon the passing panorama of experience."
Rockwell Kent

NATURE TRIVIA QUESTION

Answer to Last Week's Question:
When dragonflies are in their nymph stage, they live underwater and eat mainly mosquito larva. When dragonflies are in their adult stage, they live above water and eat mainly adult mosquitoes.

This Week's Question:
What birds fight over feathers in mid-air?