After migrating over 2,500 kilometers from the Arctic tundra, Snow Buntings make agricultural fields and burned prairies in Wisconsin their home from now until next April.
This summer, Faville Grove Sanctuary partnered with the Wisconsin DNR as part of the Wisconsin Bat Program to learn more about the bat species using our landscapes and what their presence reveals about our restoration progress.
Earlier this summer, during a botanical field trip into one of Faville Grove Sanctuary’s bogs, one of our interns stopped abruptly. “What is that?” he asked, crouching over a patch of sedges.
The elegant Great Egret is one of the most striking birds in Faville Grove’s wetlands—a tall, statuesque hunter clad in pure white feathers, moving with deliberate grace.
If you’ve wandered through the prairies at Faville Grove in summer, especially along Prairie Lane, chances are you’ve heard a buzzy, rhythmic “see-see, dic-dic, ciss-ciss-ciss,” ringing from the tops of prairie plants.