Notes from a beautiful place on the planet: part of the driftless area of northwestern Wisconsin at Lake Pepin, where the Mississippi winds beneath limestone bluffs and the night sky is unobscured. Thanks for visiting! ~Uri

April 12, 2008

Spring will arrive with the Warblers!

April 12th on Lake Pepin on the Upper Mississippi River Valley flyway: Dreaming of a warm, sunny meadow and the song of the Meadowlark.  Awoke to snow but the sounds of Spring: Song Sparrows, Red-winged Blackbirds, Phoebes, Robins, and many others. Before the snow, flocks of Sandhill Cranes stopped in the backwaters of the river, across from my office window. No wood frogs yet.