The first barge of the season passed through Lake Pepin Tuesday, April 10. Larry Nielson, the captain of the Pearl of the Lake paddlewheel boat, took this photo of the Motor Vessel Michael Poindexter as it entered the lower end of Lake Pepin at around 7 p.m. that day. He said it “encountered a...
Lake City photographer Ben Threinen captured an image of two sandhill cranes south of Lake City last week. The birds can be found in scattered areas around North America but are less common in Minnesota than in neighboring Wisconsin according to https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/sandhill-...