We planned for an eventful day on our way to Mike’s mom’s house for the weekend. We first decided to stop in Grantsburg, WI at Crex Meadows to be exact, to see what activity we could find. We arrived around 9:00 AM and came upon a Common Loon with some babies hanging out in Phantom Lake that Gary had mentioned in his last blog Crex Loons.
They were hanging out alongside the lake so we were able to get close enough to get some close up shots. We were pleasantly surprised they were not scared off because of the distance. At one point this one called out and you could hear in the distance the mate calling back, it was quite the feeling. Turns out that it was more active this morning than we thought it might be, we saw a few Green Herons. 
Actually we saw more then we have ever seen before. There was also more than one American Bittern, but every time we turned around there went another one flying away before we could get a decent picture. For smaller birds we saw quite a bit of Ring-necked Ducks in the smaller ponds here and there. 
As were there some Black Terns flying around these were a little bit easier to capture than the ones we had seen out in Sherburne NWR.
More to come...
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