With trip leaders Tim Hahn and Caleb Jenks at the Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center. Kid & Family Event. Join leaders for a hike that will focus on bird species along the Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center trail system; a boardwalk reaching out to Indermuehle Island through the marsh and covering a variety of […]
This program will introduce some of Wisconsin’s raptors through mounted specimens, artifacts, resources, and LIVE birds. Appreciate the many benefits raptors provide to humans and nature, learn action items to help our raptors through habitat conservation and awareness, and celebrate the majesty of these amazing birds of prey. It is a privilege to work with […]
With trip leader: Jeff Bahls. Limit: 15. Price: $15. Trip leader Jeff Bahls will be using the knowledge obtained from other festival field trips in finding various birding locations (Hot Spots) in hopes of adding the best birds in the time allotted. We will car caravan from the center to the best areas found during […]
With trip leader: Rick Vant Hoff. Limit: 15. Price $15. The hike at Marsh Haven Nature Center consists of three different trails; a wetland trail, a prairie trail and a woodland trail, with no trail longer than ½ mile. Common birds in the area are Eastern Bluebirds, swallows, a variety of sparrows, hawks, Sandhill Cranes […]
Bird Hike Meet at 6 PM Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center. We will walk the trails out to Indermuhle Island and back.
Field trip Old Marsh Road met Sunday June 12th 8 am the east end of Old Marsh road. (Point Rd) We will walk out from there. Spotting scopes are handy but not necessary. Target birds will be Yellow-headed Blackbirds, Black-necked stilts, rails, bitterns and gallinules https://horiconmarshbirdclub.com/locations/old-marsh-road-east-end/
Join us on Sept 15 at 6:30PM at the Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center located at N7725 Hwy 28 between Horicon and Mayville. Our talk will be "An Overview of Causes of Wild Bird Mortality in Wisconsin" . What we can do to keep wild birds in Wisconsin healthy by Nancy Businga, Wildlife Disease […]
Meet at the Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center 8 AM. We will car caravan around the marsh to look for migrating birds.
Join us at the new Palmatory st picnic shelter starting Oct 15th 4:30PM. We'll watch what returns to the marsh to roost for the night. Cranes, geese, gulls, ducks and who knows what else. Bring along a picnic supper and enjoy the sunset.
Since Tim became a birder in 2002, he primarily stuck to birding in Wisconsin, but given the opportunity in 2021, he began traveling America in search of life birds. By leveraging eBird and other applications, he created custom travel itineraries to efficiently target life birds. Tim will share his experiences planning travel and searching for […]
Join us at 6:30 PM Our program for this month will be Speaker Mark Martin, care taker of Madison' Audubon's Goose Pond Sanctuary. The focus will be on the management of the 730 acres of prairie and wetland habitat Goose Pond Sanctuary and the wildlife found there. Two hundred and seventy-one species are on the […]
