Máistir Nádúraí: Spring Field Trips!

3.20.2015

Spring Field Trips!

It's officially Spring!

Here's my spring field trip schedule:

4-16 @ 6:30 PM - Pheasant Branch Conservancy (American Woodcock)
4-24 @ 6:00 AM - Pheasant Branch Conservancy (warbler walk)
5-05 @ 6:00 AM - Pheasant Branch Conservancy (warbler walk)
5-13 @ 6:00 AM - Pheasant Branch Conservancy (warbler walk)
5-22 @ 6:00 PM - Pheasant Branch Conservancy (grassland birds)
6-14 @ 8:30 AM - Middleton Airport (Bobolinks & grassland birds)
6-17 @ 7:00 AM - Pheasant Branch Conservancy (grassland birds)
6-20 @ 7:00 AM - Birds of Pope Farm Conservancy
6-27 @ 7:00 AM - Friends Celebration Day at Pheasant Branch

This spring all of my April and May field trips are being sponsored by the Friends of Pheasant Branch Conservancy. The Middleton Airport field trip is a Madison Audubon event.

For Pheasant Branch field trip locations, see this map.

All "warbler walks" field trips meet at "Parking for Creek Corridor".
"American Woodcock" and "PBC grassland birds" meet at "Parking for Prairie Parcel".

All field trips are free and open to the general public!

That's it! Enjoy the birds!

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.