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Field Trips
28 Nov. Fun Fall Birding. (Sunday, 1:30–3:00 p.m.) 
Join Master Naturalist Paul Noeldner and other avid and beginning birders for a free family friendly, guided bird outing or take a self-guided birding walk on your own any day in November. Enjoy the wonderful variety of migrating birds that visit the lake and large natural areas at the UW Lakeshore Nature Preserve. University Bay is famous as a rest stop for waterfowl during spring and fall migration. Look for large white Tundra Swans, beautiful Buffleheads, comical looking chattering Coots and diving Grebes and Merganzers and listen for the wild calls of Common Loons. The UW Lakeshore Nature Preserve is also a great place to look for year-round resident birds like friendly Black-Capped Chickadees and Barred Owls, and early winter arrivals like Tree Sparrows that come ‘down south’ to Wisconsin for the winter. See the report summary of this field trip.
Tundra Swans back at University Bay
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​FALL NEWSLETTER
• eBird Hotspot Picnic Point - ​quick link to latest bird sightings in the Preserve.
Second Oak: An ode to autumn.
Movie by Arlene Koziol
The Preserve OPEN HOURS are from SUNRISE to SUNSET
Fires are not allowed.

The Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve inspires people
​to connect to and care for the​ UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve.

The Friends is a non-profit membership organization that supports the UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve in myriad ways: through volunteering, fundraising, stewardship projects, and interpretive programs. 

Please see our Mission and Goals and join us in caring for the Preserve. We invite you to explore the Preserve on this web site and in person, and attend Volunteer Days and free Field Trips.  

Stretching from the Eagle Heights Natural Area to Picnic Point and the Lakeshore Path, the Preserve is a jewel of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, distinguishing it as one of the most beautiful in the country. 

The Preserve is an outdoor laboratory supporting research and education, and open to the public.​ 
To pay online
• Click the Join/Renew/Donate button above

To pay by check
• Print out a Membership Form, complete the form and mail it with your check to:
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Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve
P.O. Box 5534
Madison, WI 53705