Máistir Nádúraí: Spring Field Trips!

3.07.2018

Spring Field Trips!

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Here's my 2018 Spring Field Trip and Open Birding schedule!

4-29 @ 6:30AM PBC (CC) Warblers! [OB] ✓
5-05 @ 6:00AM PBC (CC) Warblers! [OB] ✓
5-06 @ 6:30AM PBC (CC) Warblers! [WYBC] ! ✓
5-12 @ 6:00AM PBC (CC) Warblers! [NRF] *$ ✓
5-20 @ 6:00AM PBC (CC) Warblers! [OB] CANCELED ✓
6-10 @ 8:30AM Middleton Airport Grassland Birds [OB] ✓
6-16 @ 7:00AM PFC Grassland Birds [FoPFC] ✓
6-24 @ 8:30AM SGP Blooms, Birds and Beetles [TNCoW] * ✓

PBC = Pheasant Branch Conservancy
FoPFC = Friends of Pope Farm Conservancy
NRF = Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin
WYBC = Wisconsin Young Birders Club
TNCoW = The Nature Conservancy of Wisconsin
SGP = Spring Green Preserve
OB = Open Birding

* = Registration Required
$ = Field Trip Fee
! = Members Only

Link: What is “Open Birding”?

Note: All Creek Corridor (CC) walks meet at “Parking for Creek Corridor”

See: Google Map of Pheasant Branch Conservancy (PBC)

Link: NRF Field Trip Registration

Link: Pope Farm Conservancy

Link: Wisconsin Young Birders Club
Link: The Nature Conservancy of Wisconsin

See you in the field!

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 firearms. Once a gigging musician, collecting Fender Stratocasters is a recently revived interest—most prized being a 1957 Vintage Custom 'Mary Kaye' White Blonde. A former IT Professional, he's spent the last 24 years employed in the sport optics industry and has more binoculars than you.