https://ebird.org/hotspot/L311994
Habitat: Open Water, Mixed Coniferous Forest, Marsh.
Best Birds: The open water and emergent shoreline vegetation areas should be checked for Trumpeter Swan, Common Golden-eye, Horned Grebe, Common Loon, eagles, shorebirds, Bonaparte’s Gull and other gull species. The forest holds Cape May Warbler, Northern Parula, and Pine Warbler. Scan the mature pines at the Town Park for Pileated Woodpecker, Merlin, Great-crested Flycatcher, and Evening Grosbeak. Walking the short trail from the Town Park parking lot west along the headwaters of the Wisconsin River offers an opportunity for kinglets, thrushes, warblers, and blackbirds.
Directions: 65 miles SE of Ironwood, MI/20 miles north of Eagle River. Lac Vieux Desert can be viewed from the west shore at the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Boat Access/Campground on West Shore Landing Road, (46.13448, -89.15000). From the Lac Vieux Desert Town Park on West Shore Road, (46.12184, -89.15231). And from the Wisconsin DNR Boat Access on the south east side of the lake on Lac Vieux Landing Road, (46.12327, -89.07317).
Site Address & Additional Information:
Chequamegon-Nicolet NF Boat Access/Campground
2220 West Shore Landing Road, Phelps WI
https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/cnnf/recarea/?recid=27871
Lac Vieux Desert Town Park
Vilas County, WI (vilascountywi.gov)
Mike Peczynski and Sarah Besadny
