Peoples Creek Missouri, Lake Wappapello, Mingo Wildlife Preserve, Bald Eagles, Raccoons

Wednesday we moved from the Ray Behrens Recreation Area to Peoples Creek Recreation Area in Wappapello, Missouri - about 4 hours further south of where we were.

Our Campsite at Peoples Creek on Lake Wappapello

The marina next door to our campground

Back side of the dam near our campsite

View from across the lake - only a couple miles across the lake but it was an 18 mile drive and a 3 mile hike to get to where this photo was taken

Sunset on Lake Wappapello just below our campsite

Lake Wappapello has it's "ducks in a row" - I think maybe they were lining up to get ready to migrate - not sure

Found an old cemetery in the woods on one of our hikes - here is a Confederate soldier's gravestone

We spent part of a day at the Mingo Wildlife Preserve, about 8 miles from the campground - most of these wildlife photos are from there.

Blue heron in flight

Bald Eagle

A second bald eagle not far away - probably the mate ofthe first one

Another blue heron

Raccoon digging in the mud - there were two of them but the other one wouldn't turn around to get his picture taken

Another blue heron

Princeton Wildlife Area - Migrating Ducks, Bald Eagle, Migrating Pelicans

We went on a four mile hike along the levees at the Princeton Wildlife Area in Princeton, Iowa today.  There was a lot of waterfowl - mostly migrating ducks and geese - thousands of them.   

Lots of lotus plants and their pods 

We saw one bald eagle but he was pretty high - couldn't get a very good picture

Bald Eagle

This is a blow up of one of the pictures - pretty fuzzy

Lots of mallards

Some of the 1000's of ducks

When we got back to the campground there was a large flock of probably about 150 to 200 pelicans just offshore from the campground on the Mississippi river - they are still there several hours later (we can see them from the camper).  They are most likely migrating to Texas or Louisiana following the Mississippi down.