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Fall Migrating Birds - 10 September 2022

9/18/2022

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Jill Feldkamp (middle, purple shirt) and Roma Lenehan (far left, brimmed hat) guide the group as we look for birds along the edge of Biocore Prairie.
On a sunny Saturday morning at Frautschi Point, twenty students, community members, and long-time Friends stared intently at a basswood tree about fifteen feet off the trail. The basswood, though a remarkable species in its own right, was not the subject of this intense scrutiny for its own merit alone. This was no tree walk; our leafy friend was abuzz with fluttering warblers. As accomplished birders Jill Feldkamp and Roma Lenehan led us around the forested trails of Frautschi Point, we saw a number of woodpeckers, thrushes, and of course, the sought-after migrating warblers. Just before emerging out into the Biocore Prairie, some of us in the far back even saw a bald eagle!
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A chance to see birds up close! Folks crowd around the Biocore Prairie Bird Banding Station.
​While many of those in attendance did not have binoculars, we were granted an incredible opportunity to see otherwise distant warblers up close at the Biocore Prairie Bird Banding Station. There we observed the work of the banding team, who graciously allowed us all to crowd around in wonder. 
 
The birds kept on accumulating as we walked down the prairie’s northern forest edge, bathed in warm September sunlight. Jill had warned us before the start of the trip that the bird forecast was poor for today, but as two rose-breasted grosbeaks flew over us as we returned to the parking lot, it confirmed our trip was anything but. 
 
Roma documented that we encountered 32 different species! A sizeable flock, that.
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Photos and report by Will Vuyk. Bird list provided by Roma Lenehan.
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