Wildlife
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Wildlife
The pond is stocked with pan fish and is home to painted and snapping turtles. Small mammals, including cottontail rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks can be seen running around the grounds. From time to time, coyotes, opossums, raccoons, woodchucks, fox, muskrat, field mice, skunks and white-tail deer are also seen.
Additionally, the birdlife is abundant, especially during the spring and fall migrations. The spring birds include 30 species of warbler, vireos, kinglets, woodpeckers, sparrows, northern oriole, rose-breasted grosbeak, scarlet tanager, wrens, thrushes, cuckoos, swallows, flycatchers, rails and herons.
On the pond and lagoons near Wingspread, more than 20 duck species, as well as sandpipers and plovers, can be seen. Occasionally, hawks and owls are also spotted.
Bird species that have been seen over the last 50 years include ring-necked pheasants, mourning doves, robins, chickadees, cedar waxwings, cardinals, mallards, Canada geese, house sparrows and starlings.
