Author Archives: Andrew Dressel

Well, it was dark as pitch long after “sunrise” this morning with rain in the forecast, so I skipped visiting Estabrook and have some more pictures from Kohler-Andrae to show you instead. Here’s one of the curious deer keeping tabs on me as I made my way along the cordwalk yesterday morning. Here’s a youngContinue reading “Kohler-Andrae Recap”

Oh, what a beautiful morning it was in Kohler-Andrae State Park. On my third try, I had the routine down pat, and I was done with breakfast and up on the cordwalk over the dunes in time to see this sight. The deer were there to greet me, and here’s the first one. I hadContinue reading “Kohler-Andrae Day 3-ish”

This morning in Estabrook Park turned out to be far nicer than forecast. It seems that the overnight rain washed all the grey out of the sky, and it was a perfect crystal blue. On my way to the pond, I came across a monarch in the pollinator garden on a rough blazing star (LiatrisContinue reading “Eagles, egrets, and osprey! Oh my!”

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 easternContinue reading “Kohler-Andrae Rehash”

I learned a few lessons from day 1-ish, and this morning went smooth as glass. I put my camera in the car and parked in a nearby overflow lot last evening so when I got up at 4 this morning, all I had to do was walk quietly to the car, drive to Kwik TripContinue reading “Kohler-Andae day 2-ish, double the fun”

I came back to Milwaukee for some work stuff, and it was a nice morning to be back in Estabrook. Sure, it was a little cloudy, but the air was cool, the breeze was light, and it wasn’t raining. Anyway, I saw only wood ducks on the pond and so continued on to the river.Continue reading “A nice cool morning in August…”

As promised, I drove up to Kohler-Andrae State Park yesterday afternoon to camp with Anne and her extended family, and after we got the tents and clotheslines all set up, the grandson and I went to go see what we could see. We had hardly gotten a hundred yards from our campsite when we cameContinue reading “Kohler-Andrae, 2023, Day 1-ish.”

The air was cool, and the clouds were pretty thick this morning, especially compared to the weather we’ve been enjoying most of this summer, so I waited a bit before visiting Estabrook Park in hopes that a little more warmth and light might arrive. Results were mixed. It did warm up enough for this monarchContinue reading “A break from all the excitement”

Donna had arranged for her Sunday birding group to get a guided tour today of Horicon Marsh, the largest freshwater cattail marsh in the United States, by Carl Schwartz, a “past president … of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology,” so I jumped at the chance. Horicon Marsh is the first “Wisconsin Birding Hotspot” listed onContinue reading “Horicon Marsh!”

Here are the rest of the pictures from yesterday that I ran out of time to show you. As I already mentioned, I saw the two fawns on the east side of the pond, and one was prancing around a bit when they first spotted me. That’s the one who then came over to checkContinue reading “The rest of the story…”