https://ebird.org/hotspot/L4471461
Habitat: Marsh, Open Water, Cropland. on NE corner of intersection, pond on NW corner of intersection, and extensive cropland on SW corner of intersection.
Best Birds: The cattail marsh is home to Sora, Willow Flycatcher, Marsh Wren, and occasionally Virginia Rail, Least Bittern, and American Bittern. Purple Martins nest adjacent/east of the marsh. When flooded, the pond to the NW provides habitat for Spotted Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Wilson’s Phalarope, and Long-billed Dowitcher. The extensively flooded field on the SW corner may hold White-fronted Goose, Snow Goose, Northern Pintail, Great Egret, and Bonaparte’s Gull, or shorebirds such as American Avocet, Long-billed and Short-billed Dowitcher, Willet, Marbled Godwit, Hudsonian Godwit, Black-bellied Plover and White-rumped Sandpiper. Northern Harrier and Vesper Sparrow breed in the area.
Directions: 5 miles NW of Port Washington/ 3 miles south of Fredonia, and one mile east of Hwy 57.
Site Address & Additional Information:
1400 Hawthorne Dr., Fredonia WI
Jim Frank
