Yellow Warbler -Female- of Horicon Marsh is a photograph by Carol Toepke which was uploaded on May 22nd, 2013.
Yellow Warbler -Female- of Horicon Marsh
Yellow-rumped Warblers are impressive in the sheer numbers with which they flood the continent each fall. Shrubs and trees fill with the streaky... more
by Carol Toepke
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Yellow Warbler -Female- of Horicon Marsh
Artist
Carol Toepke
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Photograph - Digital Image
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Yellow-rumped Warblers are impressive in the sheer numbers with which they flood the continent each fall. Shrubs and trees fill with the streaky brown-and-yellow birds and their distinctive, sharp chips. Though the color palette is subdued all winter, you owe it to yourself to seek these birds out on their spring migration or on their breeding grounds. Spring molt brings a transformation, leaving them a dazzling mix of bright yellow, charcoal gray and black, and bold white.
It is our first year of birding and we started out the year at one of the premier events in the State of Wisconsin: Horicon Marsh Birding Festival - May 11, 2013 - Two Tours: First Light Birding Bus Tour from 6am-12pm and Hot Spot Birding Bus Tour from 4:30-7:30pm both of the Tours were hosted by Horicon Marsh Bird Club members from the International Education Center (better known as Location A) Tour Guides: Brad Webb, Dennis Gustafson, Jeff Bahls and Guest Speaker Eric Brunke. Horicon Marsh is the largest freshwater cattail marsh in the United States. It consists of 32,000 acres and is home to over 200 kinds of birds and a wide variety of other wildlife. The marsh was created by the Green Bay lobe of the Wisconsin glaciation during the Pleistocene era. The glacier, during its advance created many drumlins (a type of knoll) in the region, many of which have become the islands of Horicon Marsh. The marsh located in Northern Dodge and Southern Fond du Lac Counties in the State of Wisconsin have the highest concentration of drumlins in the world. During the glacier's retreat, a moraine was created, forming a natural dam holding back the waters from the melting glacier and forming Glacial Lake Horicon. The Rock River slowly eroded the moraine, and the lake drained. As the levels of silt, clay and peat accumulated in the former lake's basin, the Horicon Marsh was formed. The Horicon Marsh State Wildlife Area is one of nine units of the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve system, being considered to contain unique, representative evidence of the Ice Age of the Pleistocene era.
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May 22nd, 2013
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