We left the Gulf of Mexico on May 1 following the birds north to Wisconsin.
Before we left, we took one last field trip on Dauphin Island to Peilcan Point, a sandbar that juts south into the gulf.
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| American Avocets |
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| Sanderling |
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| Short-billed Dowitchers & Willets |
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| Least Tern |
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| Least Terns nest on this sandbar |
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| Black-bellied Plover |
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| Red Knot |
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| Great Blue Heron |
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| Osprey |
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| Bay-breasted Warbler |
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| Softshell Turtle laying eggs |
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| Eastern Box Turtle |
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| Dickcissel found as we traveled north into Iowa to visit with friends Jay & Nancy Hamann in their new 1860 historic home. |
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| Then on to Janesville, Wisconsin where we visited friends Bill & Glenda Berger and found this first of year Eastern Kingbird. |
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| Then to Madison where our son Troy found this Barred Owl. |
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| At Horicon Marsh we found the rare Hudsonian Godwit |
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| Lesser & Greater Yellowlegs |
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| The warblers were just arriving into Wisconsin, Palm Warbler |
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| Common Loon at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary |
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| Tree Swallow pair at Ken Euer's Wildlife Area, West Bay Shore |
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| Yellow-headed Blackbird with his harsh "rusty gate" song |
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| Jack in the Pulpit at Sensiba WLA |
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| Brown Creeper |
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| Yellow Warbler |
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| Blue-winged Teal drake at Sensiba |
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| Solitary Sandpiper joins the bird walk at the Wildlife Sanctuary |
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| Raccoon cavity about 35 feet up in a Cottonwood tree |
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| Wood Ducks increasing in number at the Wildlife Sanctuary |
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| Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
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| Blackburnian Warbler |
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| Baltimore Oriole feeding on apple blossoms |
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| Cape May Warbler |
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| Black-throated Blue Warbler |
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| Magnolia Warbler In the last three days we have had 26 species of warblers |
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| Tom Turkey struts his stuff, trying to impress hens and birders alike. Ten more days in Green Bay and then it is westward ho! Always feeling blessed to be able to see all that God has in store for us. Love & Prayers Ty & Ida Baumann |
