https://ebird.org/hotspot/L16866205
Habitat: Marsh, Open Water, Willow, Alder or Dogwood Swamp.
Best Birds: The stretch from the east end of Lineville Road south beyond the first gate to the second gate offers excellent opportunities to view breeding marshbirds including Virginia Rail, Common Gallinule, Least Bittern, American Bittern, and Yellow-headed Blackbird. Great Egret, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Forster’s Tern, Caspian Tern, and others are usually hunting the areas of open water. In spring, the area just before the second gate on the west side of the road has an excellent variety of dabbling ducks and the bay on the opposite side of the road has excellent, occasionally stunning, numbers of diving ducks. In fall and winter, Northern Harrier, Rough-legged Hawk, and Northern Shrike are regular.
Directions: Exit US Highway 41/141 at Lineville Road and proceed east for 1.5 miles. After the bend Lineville Road becomes Bayshore Rd and there is a parking lot (44.59160, -88.01640). There are two gates to the south of the parking area, the first of which can be entered on foot because this is Brown County property. The second gate, about a mile past the first gate, cannot be entered as it is US Army Corps of Engineers property that is actively used by large construction vehicles working on restoring the Cat Island Chain.
Site Address & Additional Information:
1730 Bayshore Dr, Green Bay, WI
Restoring the Cat Island Chain in Green Bay, Wisconsin | U.S. Department of the Interior (doi.gov)
Tom Prestby
