bkrownd
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Nobody has ever posted a thread for Wisconsin??? What's wrong with the world?
I go to La Crosse Wisconsin for Thanksgiving every year. It's very nice in the late autumn - quiet, lots of wildlife, and very nice autumn weather. La Crosse is a dead boring town, but it's quaint for the holidays, in a dead boring kind of way. The only problem is that this is smack in the middle of hunting season, and everyone who sees me go into the woods with my camera, even total strangers on the street, predicts that I'll be shot. My grandmother threw a tizzy and stopped speaking to me one day when I wouldn't let the thunder of gunfire keep me inside. Damn the buckshot, I got woodpeckers to chase!
Last year the common winter birds were around, which was OK because it was my first autumn with the camera. Swans and ducks. Hawks and eagles. Jays and juncos. Woodpeckers galore. Kind of a boring assortment, now that I remember it, but they were all new to my camera lens back then. Now I've "been there, done that."
I need to make a watch list of more interesting birds I haven't yet seen for this November's trip, and find some hunter-free places to look for them. Grebes. Snipes. Owls. Sapsuckers. Larks. Titmice. Does anybody know the La Crosse area, or what kinds of interesting birds might hang out where along the Mississippi. (Please don't say tundra swans or bald eagles - yawn)
I go to La Crosse Wisconsin for Thanksgiving every year. It's very nice in the late autumn - quiet, lots of wildlife, and very nice autumn weather. La Crosse is a dead boring town, but it's quaint for the holidays, in a dead boring kind of way. The only problem is that this is smack in the middle of hunting season, and everyone who sees me go into the woods with my camera, even total strangers on the street, predicts that I'll be shot. My grandmother threw a tizzy and stopped speaking to me one day when I wouldn't let the thunder of gunfire keep me inside. Damn the buckshot, I got woodpeckers to chase!
Last year the common winter birds were around, which was OK because it was my first autumn with the camera. Swans and ducks. Hawks and eagles. Jays and juncos. Woodpeckers galore. Kind of a boring assortment, now that I remember it, but they were all new to my camera lens back then. Now I've "been there, done that."
I need to make a watch list of more interesting birds I haven't yet seen for this November's trip, and find some hunter-free places to look for them. Grebes. Snipes. Owls. Sapsuckers. Larks. Titmice. Does anybody know the La Crosse area, or what kinds of interesting birds might hang out where along the Mississippi. (Please don't say tundra swans or bald eagles - yawn)