Bird & Nature Outings

press release: 1st Sunday every month year-round, from 6098 N Sherman Ave, Cherokee Marsh North Unit parking lot. Wear a mask and maintain social distance. Free, welcoming, family friendly, educational, no registration required, no pets. Monthly Bird and Nature Adventures at Cherokee Marsh are co-sponsored by Madison Parks, Madison Audubon and Friends of Cherokee Marsh. See what others are posting on the Friends of Cherokee Marsh Facebook page and post your own pictures and comments!

Upcoming dates:

Sun Sep 03 1:30 "Ecotones-Habitat Edges"

Join Master Naturalist Alex Singer for a guided tour or take a walk on your own any day in September to explore and learn about ecotones, places where different habitats meet such as lower and higher mountain elevations and the borders between marshes and woodlands.  These transitions between habitats contribute to biodiversity. Adapting to varied altitudes, geology and other natural conditions within a short distance causes living things to diversify physically while providing them the things they need to live. Some creatures need an area with a combination of habitats such as ducks that like open water and shallow ponds and also need bordering marshes and uplands to nest.