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Season Watch

Bald Eagles eat danger for breakfast: Season Watch Podcast debut

By Heidi Holtan,
Charlie Mitchell
Published October 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM CDT
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A Bald Eagle calls while perched on roadkill on a rainy day on Oct. 28, 2023.
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A Bald Eagle calls while perched on roadkill on Oct. 28, 2023.

In this episode, co-hosts Charlie and Heidi introduce the podcast, get tricked by Blue Jays, and listen to clips from John Latimer and the Phenology Show, Pam Perry’s interview on Oct. 14, and student phenologists from Cherry School.

It’s the debut of the Season Watch podcast!

This week’s co-hosts, Heidi Holtan (director of content and public affairs, multitasking guru) and Charlie Mitchell (KAXE phenology coordinator, resident nature nerd) delight in Blue Jay mimicry, talk about Bald Eagles, opine about ecological traps, and generally give this whole podcast thing a test run.

In addition, we hear from KAXE Staff Phenologist John Latimer (long live the king!), retired Minnesota Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologist Pam Perry, and student phenologists at Cherry School in Virginia.

Love the podcast? Think we’re stinky little poo-poo pants? Let us know! Email us at seasonwatch@kaxe.org.

That does it for this week! For more phenology, subscribe to our Season Watch Newsletter, check out Phenology with John Latimer, and visit the Season Watch Facebook page.

Funding for this project was provided by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR).

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Heidi Holtan
Heidi Holtan has been involved with KAXE since 2002. Now as Director of Content and Public Affairs she manages and is the host of the KAXE Morning Show, including a variety of local content like Phenology, What's for Breakfast, Area Voices, The Sports Page and much more, alongside Morning Edition from NPR. Her latest project is Ham Radio: Cooking with Amy Thielen.
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Charlie Mitchell
Charlie Mitchell (she/they) joined KAXE in February of 2022. Charlie creates the Season Watch Newsletter, produces the Phenology Talkbacks show, coordinates the Phenology in the Classroom program, and writes nature-related stories for KAXE's website. Essentailly, Charlie is John Latimer's faithful sidekick and makes sure all of KAXE's nature/phenology programs find a second life online and in podcast form.


With a background in ecology and evolutionary biology, Charlie enjoys learning a little bit about everything, whether it's plants, mushrooms, or the star-nosed mole. (Fun fact: Moles store fat in their tails, so they don't outgrow their tunnels every time conditions are good.)
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