The upland sandpiper, upland plover, or prairie plover is a bird of many names but of a singular horizon: one that begins with junegrass and little bluestem and ends in the Pampas of the Argentine...
Wild Turkey
This spring we have been treated to numerous turkey sightings at Goose Pond Sanctuary. A flock of about 75 birds wintered 2.5 miles southeast of Goose Pond. Winter flocks spread out in early spring, and in the last week in April, we spotted a 11 gobblers in Hopkins Road Prairie near a stand of experimental elm trees on the UW Arlington Agricultural Research Farm.