La Crosse, WI : Birds, Bluffs and Natural Beauty

Beautiful scenery and bridge, at Myrick Hixon EcoPark	Mushrooms along a fallen log	Mourning Dove	Adult male Red-winged Blackbird	Mallard, sitting on her nest
White-breasted Nuthatch	Ruby-crowned Kinglet	Red-bellied Woodpecker	Can you find the little Field Sparrow in this picture?	Field Sparrow
Flock of Dark-eyed Juncos	Male American Goldfinches, keeping those feathers looking good for the ladies	Cooper's Hawk, migrating overhead	Fox Sparrow	White-breasted Nuthatch
Golden-crowned Kinglet	Golden-crowned Kinglet	Northern Rough-winged Swallow	Song Sparrow	Pectoral Sandpiper
Hooded Merganser pair	Drake Wood Duck	Tree Swallow, deep in thought	Turtles	Leopard Frog
Greater Yellowlegs	Killdeer	Red Admiral	European Starling	Pairs of Wood Ducks
Blue-winged Teal pair	Blue-winged Teal and Northern Shoveler flying by	Sunlit wetland	Woodchuck and Muskrat	Woodchuck
Muskrat, with an itch	Muskrat	Turtles	American Coot	Hooded Merganser Pair
Great Blue Herons	Belted Kingfisher	Tree Swallow taking off	Canada Goose pair	Red-tailed Hawk (a very pale-bellied one)
Bald Eagle with a duck	Great Blue Heron	Muskrat enjoying itself	Grasses	Vernal Pool Reflections
Scenery in the woods	The Bluffs of La Crosse	Afternoon Bluffs	Great Egret at sunset	Myrick Marsh
Myrick Marsh, viewed from the bluff top	View from the bluff top	Peace	Edge of the bluff	Bluffs of La Crosse
Bald Eagle with a food (photographed from the bluff tops)	Stalk, up close	Bud... spring is in the air	Mosses, thriving on a beautiful, rotting log	Violet
Violet	Violet	Hermit Thrush	False Solomon's Seal... one of my favorite plants	Fern, slowly opening up
Jack-in-the-Pulpit	Flowers, growing on the wind-swept bluff tops	Lamb's Ears	Habitat in the Hixon Forest	Hermit Thrush
Dutchman's Britches	Maple	Jack-in-the-Pulpit	Afternoon blossoms	Mid-day blossoms
Mushroom	Bell Flower	Shagbark Hickory	Spider Web	Green
Trail, leading up the Hixon Forest	Tufted Titmouse	Sharp-shinned Hawk, migrating over the bluffs in the early morning	Turkey Vulture	Train, at night. Photographed near the base of the bluffs
Birdwatching Sign... it's what you need to do :)	Ducks galore	Tree Swallow zipping around	Endless Tree Swallows!	Northern Shoveler and Tree Swallows
Krider's Red-tailed Hawk	Krider's Red-tailed Hawk	Krider's Red-tailed Hawk	Krider's Red-tailed Hawk	Great Egret
Swamp Sparrow	Yellow-rumped Warbler	Hermit Thrush	Black-capped Chickadee, letting us know he/she is nesting nearby!	Muskrat
Great Blue Heron with a fish!	Great Blue Heron about to swallow the fish!	Greater Yellowlegs, hen Blue-winged Teal, drake Mallard	American Coot, showing off its lobed feet!	Green Heron
Great Blue Heron	Greater Yellowlegs	Tree Swallow females, chatting about the attractive, blue-backed males flying around	Chimney Swift... my first of the year!	Yellow-headed Blackbird
Morel mushroom	Flower	Maple leaves	Spring growth	Flowers
Columbine	lichens	Shagbark Hickory	Lichen	Little yellow beauties
Ruby-crowned Kinglet silhouette	Greens cover the forest floor	Cavity	Train wheels passing by the base of the La Crosse bluffs	Rustic barn, just outside of La Crosse
Sharp-shinned Hawk, migrating over downtown La Crosse! Photographed from the top of a parking garage.	Adult male Peregrine Falcon, stretching the wings	Doors atop a parking garage in La Crosse	Pigeons over La Crosse	Plastic Great Horned Owls keep watch over La Crosse