Kettle Moraine SF--Greenbush Trails and Picnic Area, Sheboygan County, WI, US - eBird Hotspot
Habitat: Southern Hardwood Forest, Successional Oldfield.
Best Birds: The Greenbush trail system, which includes a segment of the Ice Age Trail, traverses an extensive hardwood forest with breeding Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Red-shouldered Hawk, Acadian Flycatcher, Wood Thrush, Yellow-throated Vireo, Hooded, Black-throated Green, Pine, and Cerulean Warbler and Scarlet Tanager. The forest edge habitat sometimes reveals Blue-winged Warbler, Eastern Towhee, and Field Sparrow.
Directions: Twenty miles west of Sheboygan. The most central trailhead to the Greenbush is at a picnic area on Kettle Moraine Drive, 43.74321, -88.10154. From there follow the Ice Age Trail north about ½ mile to the group campground or south ½ mile to a transmission line crossing. At both points the forest gives way to successional habitat. Longer routes lead west deep into the forest and looping back to the picnic area.
Address and Additional Information:
The Northern Unit of the KMSF has 30,000 acres of rolling, wooded hills and prairies with world-famous glacial landforms. At the north end of this landscape, in Sheboygan County, lies some of the most mature second-growth forest dominated by Red and White Oak, Basswood, Sugar Maple, White Ash and Ironwood.
Kettle Moraine Dr, Glenbeulah, WI
Greenbush Trails,
Kettle Moraine North Wisconsin State Park System | Wisconsin DNR
Kettle Moraine Red Oaks State Natural Area - Wisconsin DNR
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