pelicans
Compost site opens Friday, marina still weeks from opening
Mar 26, 2025
Spring things keep happening around the area.
The first tow of the season passed through town early last week, and the relocated community garden is soliciting interest from potential gardeners (see related stories).
A forecast blizzard on Wednesday of last week led to a school cancellation but...
Pelicans arrive
Apr 12, 2023
Photographer Ben Threinen submitted this photo of one of the first pelicans he’s seen this season on Lake Pepin.
A great many pelicans visit Lake Pepin
Sep 22, 2021
Lake Pepin has been a popular gathering place for pelicans recently, as this photo from Ben Threinen shows. “Last Thursday through Saturday the pelicans were a beautiful sight to watch,” he writes. “I do not remember a fall with this many pelicans stopping by Lake City.”
Pelicans visit area in droves on their spring migration
Apr 23, 2020
Just a few of the hundreds of pelicans on Frontenac Pond Sunday, according to Ben Threinen, who took this photo. He went back Monday and found only six were left.
Pelicans on Frontenac pond
Apr 24, 2019
Lake City photographer Ben Threinen spotted many pelicans on Frontenac Pond late last week. Over the next few days the pelicans departed.
Birds above, birds below
May 3, 2017
Photographer Ben Threinen was down by the Department of Natural Resources offices on South Oak Street taking photos of a flock of pelicans that had gathered there when he noticed two eagles battling for supremacy in the skies above.
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