https://ebird.org/wi/hotspot/L392556
Habitat: Mixed Coniferous Forest, Open Water.
Best Birds: The campground area and shoreline edges provide excellent birding each spring, featuring Common Loon, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Yellow-throated and Warbling Vireo, Veery, and the potential for good numbers of migrating Black-billed Cuckoo, Olive-sided Flycatcher, thrushes, and warblers.
Eastern Whip-poor-will is very vocal at night, with potential to also hear Barred Owl, Common Nighthawk, Coyote or calling loons.
Directions: 16 miles northwest of Ashland. From Washburn, follow Hwy. 13 south 1 mile, turn west on the Wannebo Rd. for 8 miles. Turn north on Forest Road 252 for 2 miles and east on Forest Road 435 for 1 mile.
Site Address & Additional Information:
Birch Grove is nestled between 22-acre East and 16-acre West Twin Lakes.
A trail around the west lake is no longer passable due to blowdown from a windstorm but canoeing the lakes or walking adjacent forest roads provides additional birding options.
Forest Road 435, Washburn, WI
https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/cnnf/recarea/?recid=27831
Ryan Brady
