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

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