Kohler-Andrae Rehash

It’s a little better now, at midday, but it sure was dark this morning here in Shorewood, and I have so many pictures from Kohler-Andrae, which I haven’t shown you yet, that I skipped Estabrook this morning and just got some work done. So, here are those pictures.

On day 1-ish, I caught this eastern black swallowtail out on the cattail marsh, and I read that “the under sides of wings of males and females are virtually identical,” so I can’t tell you which one this is. Sorry.

Here’s another look at that beautiful merlin, from day 2-ish, as it ignores me and scans the horizon.

Here’s a fuller look at the young buck with little antlers (so far!).

Here’s a closer look at one of the sandhill cranes. This one was very curious about who might be hiding behind that tree and so came surprisingly close. That probably sounds like it could be ideal, but it kept switching eyes, first the left, and then the right, so I had to keep switching the focus point on my camera from side-to-side to get the eye in sharp focus. My job is so hard!

Here’s a fuller look at the buck with bigger antlers as it almost glows in that beautiful morning sunlight coming over the dunes.

There have been a lot of cedar waxwings about, and they’ve often been moving in flocks of a dozen or more, but here’s one who wasn’t yet going with the flow.

Here’s another look at the warbler, which I still think is a Nashville, but time will probably tell.

Some of the sparrows that pass through Estabrook, and so we only get to see briefly, are on their way to or from Kohler-Andrae, it turns out, and here’s one of several chipping sparrows I could hear.

After the big spring ruckus in Estabrook, especially around the pond, I hardly hear a red-winged blackbird there now that the nestlings have fledged, but they were still pretty active over the Kohler-Andrae cattail marsh, and here’s one on the lookout for intruders.

Finally, I can’t keep talking about the cattail marsh without showing you at least one marsh wren picture, and here it is. For the cool, acrobatic shots, see my reports from 2021.

Lastly, in addition to the monarchs, viceroys, buckeyes, and browns, I even saw a good-ol’ red admiral.