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In The Big Woods at Quincy Bluffs County Park

In the big woods.  For the past two days I have been hiking trails in the big woods of the heartland in Minnesota and Wisconsin.  This morning we spent about two hours in a county park in central Wisconsin.  There are still plenty of forest birds around and warbler migration is in full swing.  Pictures of warblers are hard to come by because they spend all their time foraging for insects on the leaves of the upper canopy and are usually twenty to thirty feet above hopping about in the leaves which makes it hard to see them.  I had my first eastern warblers of the trip today and actully got lucky with this Blackburnian Warbler even though it is the underside and behind branches.  Also today was the first sighting of one of my favorite birds, the Red-headed Woodpecker

Blackburnian Warbler

Red-headed Woodpecker

Bird list update:

103 Red-bellied Woodpecker, Round Lake Mimmesota
104 Blue Jay, Round Lake Mimmesota
105 Northern Cardinal, Round Lake Mimmesota
106 Wood Duck, Round Lake Mimmesota
107 Wild Turkey, on Interstate 94, central Wisconsin
108 Eastern Bluebird, Quincey Bluff County Park, Adams County, Wisconsin
109 Red-headed Woodpecker, Quincey Bluff County Park, Adams County, Wisconsin
110 Eastern Wood Peewee, Quincey Bluff County Park, Adams County, Wisconsin
111 Blackburnian Warbler, Quincey Bluff County Park, Adams County, Wisconsin
112 Black and White Warbler, Quincey Bluff County Park, Adams County, Wisconsin
113 Broad-winged Hawk, Quincey Bluff County Park, Adams County, Wisconsin
114 Eastern Towhee, Quincey Bluff County Park, Adams County, Wisconsin