Some of Laura's bird pictures

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I got to be the keynote speaker at the Discovery Center's Third Annual Birding Festival in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, on May 19, 2007. This is one of my favorite birding festivals, exemplifying the best kind of work a great local bird club can do. It's high on birding and education, and pleasantly low on commercialism.

I led a little warbler walk at the Discovery Center at dawn, and then, after my breakfast talk on the effects of climate change on birds, headed out to the Little Turtle to lead a bird walk. These photos were taken on that walk. Then, after lunch, I presented two talks about Whooping Cranes. I was pretty tired by the end of the day! And then on Sunday morning I got to drive home in snow flurries! The wonders of spring in northern Wisconsin!

There were two pairs of Trumpeter Swans here--it was exciting watching one pair chase off the other and then get into some romantic swan duets.
A pair of loons was very easy to observe, one incubating as the other fed in the water. Tragically, the sky was densely overcast and so there wasn't good light for digiscoping--that's why you can't see their eyes. I'm going to try to get back for better pictures en route to Eagle River in two weeks.
Is there anything handsomer than Tree Swallows?
Joe Panci from The Conserve School brought some of his students, who found a host of things I hadn't noticed, like emerging dragonflies.

 

 

 
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