Sounds like a great way to celebrate!
I just got back from birding. Fifty-one birds in four hours on one trail on Goose Island is not too shabby. Funny thing…..I used to always see Barred Owls out there and still haven’t got a Barred Owl for LaCrosse county this year. I check this stand of pines every time I go there, as I’m told that’s where they roost. I found plenty of evidence of a roost but no sign of an owl. I was going back and forth between that and the edge of the island to look at a bunch of shorebirds. (We usually don’t get many here, but things are dry and there are a lot of mud flats.) While I was doing that, I could hear a couple entering the woods just a bit upshore and words to the effect of “have you found it yet?” Eventually they did. I’ll have to see who logs it. I thought it had been removed, but I guess not.
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