Sunday Stroll
We decided that after our rather stressful week, a long walk and some birding would be good for us. We first stopped at Governor’s Island in Madison. It’s a beautiful, woodsy piece of land right on the edge of a residential neighborhood on the north side of the city. It has great, old trees and areas of underbrush that provides great habitat for many birds. It’s along Lake Mendota and migrating waterfowl also pass through in the spring and fall. It’s not a large area so the walk was short so we decided to move on to another nearby nature preserve called Cherokee Marsh. We walked the prairie unit of this preserve and saw flycatchers, cranes, field and song sparrows, goldfinches, yellow warblers and also common yellowthroat warblers. The prairie flowers are in full bloom so it added some color to a mostly cloudy day.
Wild Bergamot
If you look hard you’ll see a flycatcher in this picture. (Photograph by Annette)
Female Yellow Warbler, Govenor’s Island.
The Monarch butterflies seemed to follow us down the trail.
Immature Common Yellowthroat Warbler
Always hard at work.
You’re gonna need this.
Baby birds and butterflies are very fond of you! Thanks for the photo credit! 🙂
These are great, you take such great photo’s!
Thanks Dawn. I’ve got my eye on a new lens but I’m going to have to save my dollars to get it. Maybe next summer. It’s better for birds that are a little more shy and don’t want you to get too close. The young warbler that I was able to get a pretty good picture of was just as interested in me as I was in it so I was able to get very close.