Necedah national wildlife refuge - Trumpeter swans

Each autumn goose pool within the Necedah national wildlife refuge fills with seasonal migrants.

Trumpeter swans at sunset - Necedah national wildlife refuge

The migration of the loon

A scene that is somewhat uncommon in central Wisconsin... Loons. Each spring many loons use the wetlands and flowages around the area as a migratory stop before heading northward to their territories. Loons are known for making long scouting trips. These scouting trips can be as far as 100 miles and normally last a single day. The purpose, to gain a visual on how the ice melt is progressing.

Loon and Saddle Mound - Wood county, Wisconsin

Lone Loon - Wood county, Wisconsin

Simplicity of leaves

Oak leaf on ice

Poplar leaf silhouette on Basswood leaf

Ice, oak, pine and moss

Late autumn at Devils Lake Wisconsin

Here are a few photographs taken while visiting Devils Lake Wisconsin during autumn.

Boats placed keel up for the winter.

Fisherman taking advantage of the last warm days of the year.

Sandhill wildlife area time lapse

Sandhill wildlife area marsh, Wisconsin

Time lapse photography

View a top north bluff - time lapse

Spring view a top north bluff - Sandhill wildlife area, Wisconsin

Time lapse photography

Double crested cormorants in roost

Journal entry: May 28, 2004 – Wood County Wildlife Area

The double crested cormorant are one of the most adaptable birds in the great swamp, they can fly, swim, dive and nest in trees or on the ground in and around the uplands and wetlands. These magnificent birds can keep the keenest bird watcher guessing.

Double crested cormorants roosting - Wood county wildlife area

Moods of summer - Sun bursts

Four seasons - Wood and Juneau counties

Four seasons of central Wisconsin in black and white.

Heavy clouds - Wood county wildlife area

Winter in the basin - Wood county wildlife area

Rising fog - Necedah national wildlife refuge

Autumn reflection - Wood county forest

Spring marsh - Wood county wildlife area

Mixed vegetation - Wood county wildlife area

Daisies - Wood county wildlife area

Spring in central Wisconsin

Journal entry: Wednesday April 28, 2004 - Wood county wildlife area

The credit to the photographs made during spring goes to the singing wildlife in the wetlands. The music around the wetlands is near deafening. All spring songs are composed to perfection. The spring peepers in rhythm, the air pump base of the American bittern is deep and throaty, the Sandhill cranes call coarse and raspy, an occasional clap of thunder causing the wild turkey to shock gobble, in the fare distance the drumming of the ruffed grouse, overhead the whisper of the woodcock. The annual live spring performance in the Wood county wildlife area is purely unequalled.

The portfolio below was selected from several photographs that were taken during the spring of 2009.

Bad wetland weather - Wood county wildlife area

Canada geese with goslings - Necedah national wildlife refuge

Spring light - Necedah national wildlife refuge

Spring shore - Wood county wildlife area

Wetland prairie - Wood county wildlife area



Wetland rainbow - Wood county wildlife area


Forest in down pour - South wood county park, Dexterville Wisconsin


Rainbow and bloom - South wood county park, Dexterville Wisconsin


Lilly pads - Sandhill wildlife area


Water drops and tree reflection - Sandhill wildlife area

Birch reflection - Necedah national wildlife refuge



Moore road - Wood county Wisconsin


Black river - Black river falls, Wisconsin


Sandpiper - Wood county wildlife area


Hooded merganser - South wood county park, Dexterville Wisconsin



Muskrat - Wood county wildlife area