Friday, June 4, 2021

Wildlife at the Sanctuary and beyond Green Bay

 

The crab apple trees were in perfect bloom
The three weeks in Green Bay went by very quickly and we birded almost every day at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary.  It was a great time to also see many people that we knew from our 40 years as resident director of the Sanctuary.  


We stayed at Celebration Church where Ty helped on some landscaping in our "spare time".




Black-billed Cuckoo migrating through the Wildlife Sanctuary

Warbling Vireos were singing everywhere

White-crowned Sparrows were still in the area

Golden-winged Warbler always stayed high in the trees

Blue-winged Warbler

Tom Turkey in his finest garb

Button buck White-tailed Deer 

The Sanctuary's Waterfalls, Ty's last big project before we retired 10 years ago.

New gourd Martin houses are all full

Male Purple Martin picks up nesting material

Home Sweet Home

Exhibits at the Woodland Building have a very contented Courgar.

Flying Squirrels are part of the indoor noctural exhibits.

Wilson's Phalaropes were in good numbers at Ken Euers Wildlife Area

Yellow-headed Blackbird reaches for a meal.

Magnolia Warbler

A field trip south on  Lake Michigan gave us some good birds including this young male
Harlequin Duck at Sheboygan's North Shore.

Common Tern

Mourning Warbler tries to hide from the camera

Trillums were still in bloom at Maribel Caves Park

Bay-breasted Warbler, one of 26 species of warblers seen at the Wildlife Sanctuary this May.
This has been a record warbler year with 38 eastern species.

American Redstart

Wilson's Warbler

Common Loon exercising his wings after being released from rehab.

Olive-sided Flycatcher on the tip-top of the tree.

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Black-crowned Night-heron wearing his nuptual head gear.

Young Red-tailed Hawk 

Tree Frog at the church

Waving "Good Bye", time for us to move on to Montana.
Actually, we are already there and the next blog will show those adventures along the way.
Every turn we see God's creation, a blessing every day.
Love & Prayers,
Ty & Ida Baumann




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