Semi-Successful Day…..

Yesterday we took a drive up to Horicon Marsh. It's about an hour from home and we hoped to be there toward dusk when migrating birds might land in huge numbers. It was a nice day, puffy white clouds, sun peeking in and out but it was windy. Dave would not be getting many reflection shots!

In the end we drove a three mile loop, got out to walk on the boardwalk path into the marsh, hiked a bit through the fields and did see some birds. Not as many as we hoped, but we did see birds. Geese, trumpeter swans, a raft of red heads and scaups, pairs of mallards, a few sandhill cranes flying in to land and disappear in the tall grasses, redwing black birds, lesser yellow legs and others I could not identify. (Frankly I didn't identify most of the ones listed - we were lucky enough to find a bird expert walking the same boardwalk and she did the naming!)

So…bottom's up!

Here's to the redheads! (Look close!)

And the lesser yellow legs….lesser than what???!!

A nice drive through the not-quite-green-spring-in-Wisconsin yet…..some nature and a picnic supper along the way. Pleasures close to home.