WisconsinWildlifeViewingSchedule

T.R. Michels'

Trinity Mountain Outdoor Adventures

Natural History Eco-Tours, Game Animal, Birding

Wildflower, Scenic & Photography Trips

We offer Natural History Eco-Tours with Guides who care

Why not join us on a Natural History Tour you and your family will really enjoy?

View our Natural History Tour Videos - on YouTube

Turkey Fight Video here I Turkey Fight Photos here I Turkeys Flying Up To & Down From the Roost Video here

Tom Turkey Strutting & Gobbling Video here I Canada Goose Fight Video here

Canada Goose Landing Video here I Trumpeter Swan Mating Display Video here

Trumpeter Swan Mating / Breeding Sequence Photos here I Sandhill Crane Mating Dance Video here

Sharp-tailed Grouse Mating Dance Video here I Hooded Merganser & Mallard Mating Display Video here

Swimming Beaver Video here I Moon Walkin' Takin (antelope) Video here

Whirling Wolverine Video here

Western Wisconsin Wildlife & Wildflower Viewing Schedule

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Western Wisconsin

Crex Meadows, Grantsburg, Wisconsin

January - mid March:

Winter Migrants (e.g. rough-legged hawks, snow buntings, etc.) present if snow isn't too deep

Sharp-tailed grouse feeding along roadsides and in birch and aspen

Good time to look for tracks

Mid March -early April:

Flowages begin to open

Otters and muskrat using ice adjacent to open water

First ducks arrive

Concentrations of eagles and gulls on the ice eating winter killed fish

Sharp-tailed grouse begin displaying

Early-mid April:

Eagles being nesting

Heavy use of refuge fields by deer

Spring peepers, chorus frogs, and wood frogs calling

Geese begin nesting

American bitterns calling from the marshes

Sandhill cranes arrive

Mid April - early May:

Osprey return and begin nesting

Trumpeter swans return

Peak numbers of waterfowl

Great blue herons begin nesting

Peak of sharp-tailed grouse display

First prairie flowers

First goose broods hatch

Leopard frogs, toads, and tree frogs calling

Loons return and begin nesting

Mid May - early June:

First fawns appear

All resident birds have returned

Peak display of prairie flowers

Goose broods everywhere

Blandings and painted turtles nesting

June - July:

Eagle and osprey raising young

Male ducks forming large flocks

Non-breeding flocks of sandhill cranes using sedge marshes

Occasional pelicans and Caspian terns using the larger flowages

Big bluestem grass beginning to dominate the prairies

Many duck and goose broods

August -early September:

Young birds fledging

Concentrations of great blue herons and great egrets feeding in shallow bays

Early migrating shorebirds feeding on mudflats

Young eagles fledging

Early-mid September:

Peak numbers of blue-winged teal and wood ducks

Duck population increasing

Sandhill crane and goose populations building

Peak of hawk and warbler migration

Many shore birds present

First eagle concentrations

Fall prairie plants still in bloom

Early -mid October:

First snow geese arrive

Peak numbers of diving ducks (e.g. scaup, ringnecks, bufflehead, hooded mergansers)

Sandhill cranes and Canada geese in refuge fields

Peak number of bald eagles on Refuge Extension and Phantom Lake

First hard frost turns prairie golden brown

Mid-late October:

Peak numbers of snow geese, Canada geese and sandhill cranes

Overall duck numbers decreasing but still many diving ducks

Eagles still present

Peak fall colors

Early-mid November:

Ducks leave after first hard freeze

Sandhills and Canada geese still at peak numbers (weather dependent)

Winter migrants arrive

Mid November - December:

All flowages frozen

Some geese and eagles may over-winter if water is available.

T.R. Michels' Trinity Mountain Outdoor Adventures offers Natural History Eco-Tours and Photography Trips to all of these areas. Join T.R. Michels for an outdoor adventure you or your whole family will enjoy. T.R. Michels is a nationally recognized wildlife researcher, naturalist, outdoor writer, author and photographer who enjoys helping others experience the Great Outdoors.

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