Máistir Nádúraí: Spring Field Trips!

3.20.2012

Spring Field Trips!

Happy Spring!

Here's my spring birding field trip schedule:

April 19th - Evening at Pheasant Branch
April 26th - Warbler Walk at Pheasant Branch
May 3rd - Warbler Walk at Pheasant Branch
May 15th - Warbler Walk at Pheasant Branch
May 17th - Warbler Walk at Pheasant Branch
May 24th - Evening at Pheasant Branch
June 9th - Grassland Birds at Middleton Airport
June 19th - Pheasant Branch Birding

All field trips are free and open to the public. I hope to see you there! For exact times and other details, please visit Madison Audubon 2012 field trips.

Bio:

Mike McDowell has been documenting southern Wisconsin’s flora and fauna since 1987 and began leading field trips in 2002. Prolific at Pheasant Branch Conservancy, other highlighted natural areas include Pope Farm Conservancy, Spring Green Preserve, and the Baraboo Hills. His nature photography has appeared in various publications, newspapers, magazines and was even featured on a Wisconsin Endangered Resources license plate, a Capital Brewery beer label, and a National Geographic publication. He began journaling nature observations on this blog in 2005. He's the recipient of the 2012 Bronze Passenger Pigeon Award from the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, presented to individuals who have made outstanding contributions in their local communities or state to promote the field of ornithology. He was a finalist in Swarovski’s Digiscoper of the Year photography contest several times. His other interests include insect macro-photography (especially tiger beetles, treehoppers, and robber flies), fossil collecting, amateur astronomy, botany, natural history, and marksmanship with long-range rifles. Once a gigging musician, collecting Fender Stratocasters is a recently revived interest—most prized being a 1957 Vintage Custom Shop 'Mary Kaye' White Blonde. A former IT Professional, he's spent the last 24 years employed in the sport optics industry.