Welcome to MyLakeWingra.org

... a living, breathing, environmentally growing lake in Madison, Wisconsin ...

Watch it rain on Lake Wingra. Or make it rain harder. Click on the picture to the right (in Internet Explorer), and drag the mouse around to see the evapotransporation process.

Or, just click around this site to see all the life in and around Lake Wingra.

Any problems or comments? Want to add your own images here? Just email me and attach a picture you've taken. Carly Garfield


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Click here to find out more about our living Lake Wingra:

Algae
Birds
Fish
Insects
Mammals
Plants
Trees
Zooplankton

 

 

Birds

 

Accipiter cooperii - Cooper’s hawk

Accipiter striatus - Sharp-shinned hawk

Anas platyrhynchos - Mallard

Baeolophus bicolor - Tufted titmouse

Bombycilla cedrorum - Cedar waxwing

Branta canadensis
- Canada goose

Bubo virginianus - Great horned owl

Buteo jamaicensis - Red-tailed hawk

Cardinalis cardinalis - Northern cardinal

Carduelis tristis - American goldfinch

Carpodacus mexicanus - House finch

Corvus brachyrhynchos - American crow

Cyanocitta cristata - Blue jay

Junco hyemalis - Dark eyed junco

Megascops asio - Eastern screech owl

Melanerpes carolinus - Red bellied woodpecker

Meleagris gallopavo - Wild turkey

Passer domesticus - House sparrow

Picoides pubescens - Downy woodpecker

Picoides villosus - Hairy woodpecker

Poecile atricapillus - Black capped chickadee

Sitta carolinensis - White breasted nuthatch

Strix varia - Barred owl

Turdus migratorius - Robin

Zenaida macroura - Mourning dove

Agelaius phoeniceus - Red-winged Blackbird