Please join us for something new and different! Family attractions! Free admission! Saturday July 12th, 2025 11am-3pm (rain date: July 13th, 2025) ●Participate in a treasure hunt by visiting 5 locations throughoutthe Collins Marsh Property. Parents with children can do this asa family activity. You will need to use your vehicle and follow theTreasure Map. […]
CEI bird club members learned a new term at today’s meeting at the Neustadter Nature Center. Jizz is the overall impression or appearance of a bird gathered from such features as shape, posture, flying style or other habitual movements. A member had asked how best to easily detect an Eastern Phoebe frequenting their yard . The […]
June on the marsh is an exciting time of year! The world has become greenalmost overnight and with it the sound of life is everywhere, birdsong, buzzing bumblebees, hovering dragonflies and the leaves flickering in the wind with a breeze. Afreshwater marsh is a unique ecosystem filled with a high diversity of life, fromspecialized plants, […]
Friends of the Manitowoc River Watershed and Friends of Collins Marsh welcome the public to aday of activities celebrating life at the marsh. Events take place at Collins Marsh & Nature Center, 20021 County Road JJ, Reedsville, WI 54230 10:00-11:00: A presentation, “Birds of Collins Marsh” by Dr. Medhavi Ambardar, Chief Scientist at the […]
Join us May 20, 2025 at 6:00pm for Birds and Bugs. A presentation by award-winning nature photographer John Walch. John will showcase images capturing the beauty and diversity of birds visiting our area throughout the year The program will highlight the important connection between birds and insects in the environment. Held at Neustadter Nature Center ,.20021 County Rd […]
CEI Birders “took a hike” for this month’s meeting. Walking along the loop trail around the nature center grounds, members enjoyed the sights and sounds of mostly resident birds- orioles, kingbirds, pelicans, song sparrows and many more. Yellow warblers dominated the migrating species seen. Especially entertaining was the honking of the local trumpeter swan couple […]
Wetlands come alive in May and Collins Marsh is no exception,booming with life! Under the serene looking waters there is a wholedifferent aquatic world that we don’t get to see. As the length of dayincreases and temperatures warm both on land and in the water, there is apalette of color before you. Green occurs in […]
Although April 22nd is officially Earth Day, Friends of Collins Marsh will be honoring it with events on April 26 & 27, 2025. Saturday, April 27th 9:00am CEI Birders Road Cleanup CEI Birders Adopt-a-HIghway Spring Trash pickup Saturday April 26th at 0900. Meet at the Neustadter Nature Center, 20021 CTY RD JJ, to pick up […]
April’s CEI Bird club meeting began with a welcome to several new birding enthusiast attendees. Upcoming events were then reviewed, including the Midwest Crane Count April 12th, CEI road cleanup April 26th, plus a newly scheduled event at the Nature Center on April 27th. Rebecca Jabs, who created the remarkable Divers and Dabblers panels at […]
It feels like time has taken forever, much like the anticipation of a visit from an oldfriend, waiting for weeks, then days for an arrival that took way too long. That issometimes what April feels like, waiting for the grass to turn green, the buds on thetrees to burst forth into leaves and the earliest […]