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Roma Lenehan leads field trip participants
to Mara McDonald's banding station at Biocore
Prairie, where Mara is holding an "open
house."
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Banding station leader, Mara McDonald,
measures and checks the health of one of
the netted migrants before banding and releasing
the bird.
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After banding, taking measurements and
recording the data, and before releasing
a migrant Nashville Warbler, Mara's assistant,
Anjan, tries to remove a tick.
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Field trip participants look for insects
in the Biocore Prairie demonstration garden.
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David Eagan demonstrates the many uses
of the cattail plant in University Bay Marsh.
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Rebecca Christoffel points out racoon prints
in the mud near a Picnic Point puddle.
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The youngest field trip participant watches
with interest as David Eagan cracks open
a black walnut with a hammer stone.
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Rebecca shows evidence that
a raccoon has dug up a nest of snapping turtles.
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| Andrew Williams prepares to sweep flowers
of Biocore Prairie to show some of the insects
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| Emeritus Professor John Thomsen cuts open
a gall in a Picnic Point grape vine to show
the insect larvae growing inside it. |
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Eagle Heights Gardens and Ag Fields
Eagle Heights Woods
Frautschi Point
Lake Mendota
Lakeshore Path
Muir Woods
Tent Colony Woods
Picnic Point
Picnic Point Marsh
Raymer's Cove
Second Point Woods
University Bay and Willow Creek
Wally Bauman Woods
Willow Creek Woods