Spring Break Phenology

Over spring break I traveled back home to Madison, Wisconsin. Just down the street from my house, about a 5 minute walk, there is a large natural area called Cherokee marsh. The natural community there can be classified as a wetland, whereas my site here in Burlington is a woodland. Cherokee Marsh is best known for the family of Sandhill Cranes that have lived there and hand many generations of offspring, something Burlington definitely doesn’t have. When I last visited two Cranes flew over head while I was walking around the marsh. The only animals tracks that I could identify was that of a while Tailed Deer and Grey Squirrel. Other birds besides that Sandhill Crane that I observed were Crows and Canadian Goose.

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~ by hnyoike on March 18, 2019.

 
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