Sunday, May 16, 2021

Alabama to Wisconsin


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.




American Avocets


Sanderling

Short-billed Dowitchers & Willets

Least Tern

Least Terns nest on this sandbar

Black-bellied Plover

Red Knot

Great Blue Heron

Osprey

Bay-breasted Warbler

Softshell Turtle laying eggs

Eastern Box Turtle

Dickcissel found as we traveled north into Iowa to visit with friends
Jay & Nancy Hamann in their new 1860 historic home.

Then on to Janesville, Wisconsin where we visited friends
Bill & Glenda Berger and found this first of year Eastern Kingbird.

Then to Madison where our son Troy found this Barred Owl.

At Horicon Marsh we found the rare Hudsonian Godwit

Lesser & Greater Yellowlegs

The warblers were just arriving into Wisconsin,  
Palm Warbler

Common Loon at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary

Tree Swallow pair at Ken Euer's Wildlife Area, West Bay Shore

Yellow-headed Blackbird with his harsh "rusty gate" song

Jack in the Pulpit at Sensiba WLA

Brown Creeper

Yellow Warbler

Blue-winged Teal drake at Sensiba

Solitary Sandpiper joins the bird walk at the Wildlife Sanctuary

Raccoon cavity about 35 feet up in a Cottonwood tree

Wood Ducks increasing in number at the Wildlife Sanctuary

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Blackburnian Warbler

Baltimore Oriole feeding on apple blossoms

Cape May Warbler

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Magnolia Warbler
In the last three days we have had 26 species of warblers

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




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