For big bird viewing, we’ve been nowhere better than Crex Meadows in northwest WI, with its 30,000 acres of fields and shallow open water, and dirt roads built with the birder in mind. Here find boo-coo puddle ducks, uncountable honkers, and, in the Fall certainly, Sandhill Cranes and Trumpeter/Tundra Swans:
Less common but almost always to be found are Bald Eagles and Ospreys:
Pied-billed Grebes:
and Great Blue Herons and Great Egrets:
The swans look like trumpeters, in some cases:
but the book says immature Tundra (used to be Whistling) Swans have dirty pink bills:
Whatever the swans are, they’re sure photogenic:
but I’m not sure what to call their foot thing:
..and not forgetting the Sandhill Cranes:
