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Date: May to October, 2008 Locality: 1) Sandhill Wildlife Area, Wood County, Wisconsin Camera Equipment: Canon Digital Rebel, Nikon CoolPix L3, Canon 28-105 3.5-4.5 II USM lens, Canon 100-400 IS Lens, Canon EW-63II Lens Hood
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Red-winged Blackbirds Adult male on the left, first year male on the right. |
Red-breasted Nuthatch My first Red-breasted Nuthatch,courtesy of Dick Thiel's bird feeder platforms at the Outdoor Skills Center. |
Purple Finch Another lifer. |
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Dark-eyed Junco |
White-throated Sparrow |
White-crowned Sparrow |
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Greater Sandhill Crane |
Blue-spotted Salamander |
Greater Sandhill Crane |
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American Bison |
Trumpter Swan |
Greater Sandhill Cranes at dusk |
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Trumpter Swan |
Canada Geese
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Red Squirrel |
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This family of geese likes to hang out around this turn of the Trumpter tail. Usually when I make that turn, the family starts running down the trail, and eventually will veer off to the grass. |
I have seen Lesser Goldfinches in breeding plumage in Texas, but never American Goldfinches. What a sight. |
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Blanding's Turtle One of Dick's radio tagged Blanding's Turtles. This particular one is missing a left hind leg. |
Eastern Garter Snake My first Eastern Garter Snake, found it basking on the trail while I was biking. |
North American Porcupine Porcupines are along my favorite species of mammals. They are a common sight out in West Texas. Until this one, I have never seen them climb up a tree. |
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Common Snapping Turtle This is actually the first time I have seen snapping turtles get up on all fours, raise their plastron off the ground and walk this way. Did you notice one of Dick's wing tags on the right rear edge of the carapace? I sure didn't when I took the picture. |
Painted Turtle I think painted turtles are one of the most gorgeous species of turtles out there. They were my first species of pet turtles in America. I need to some how get a couple of babies in my collection again. |
Wallace B. Grange Mr. Grange (1905-1987) was Wisconsin's first superintendent of game, a position he held for two years. He then when to work the U.S. Biological Survey. In 1937, he came back to Wisconsin and established the Sandhill Game Farm in Wood County. The state bought the property in 1962 and turned it into Sandhill Wildlife Area. Sandhill was once a abandoned farm, Wallace restored it in to an area that could support wildlife. |
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Eastern Chipmunk |
Smooth Green Snake |
Cope's Gray Treefrog |
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Cope's Gray Treefrog |
Common Snapping Turtle |
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel |
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