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The following wildlife sightings are those recorded by visitors in a book at the Visitor Center. The names of those recording sightings are not listed here. If you visited the Tamarac Wildlife Refuge lately and would like to send in your wildlife sighting you can email the information to: tamarac@fws.gov |
Date (2007) |
Species |
Location |
August 18 |
Wild turkeys |
Hwy 26 |
August 18 |
Doe and fawn |
Long Lost Lake Trail |
August 18 |
Fisher and Horned Owl |
Black Bird Trail |
August 17 |
Bald eagle |
Pine Lake |
August 10 |
3 White tail deer, eagle,
6 squirrels, common loons |
visitor center and Hwy 29 |
August 8 |
Squirrel, Norther harrier |
Near entrance |
August 7 |
Raccoons, turkeys, heron |
Hwy 26 |
August 7 |
White tail deer |
Hiking Trail |
August 5 |
2 Loons, White pelicans,
|
Pine and Tamarac Lake |
August 5 |
5 Canadian geese |
visitor center |
August 4 |
2 Trumpeter swans, 6 cygnets |
Balsam Lake |
August 1 |
Fisher, eagle, coyote |
visitor center |
July 31 |
2 Wild turkeys |
visitor center |
July 29 |
Black bear |
Hwy 143 and 35 |
July 29 |
4 Wild turkeys |
Hwy 26 |
July 29 |
2 Swans, many grebes, 2
eagles,
2 common loons, ospreys |
Lost Lake and E Bruce |
July 27 |
Deer and eagle |
Hwy 29 |
July 26 |
Black bear |
Hwy 29 and
56 intersection |
July 22 |
3 Evening grosbeaks |
visitor center |
July 22 |
Geese |
visitor center |
July 22 |
3 Deer |
Service
Road |
July 22 |
Bald eagle |
Hwy 26 |
July 20 |
White pelicans |
Pine Lake |
July 17 |
Swans |
Pine Lake |
July 12 |
Red Fox |
Bruce Blvd |
July 10 |
Geese with goslings |
visitor center |
July 7 |
6 Bald eagles, 2 Swans, grey duck |
Info kiosk |
July 6 |
Trumpeter swans |
Flat Lake |
July 5 |
Eagles |
On tour |
July 4 |
2 Doe, 1 fawn, several Swans,
flock of White pelicans, 2 Loons,
Turtle, Woodducks |
Blackbird Trail, Pine Lake |
July 3 |
Black bear |
Hwy 26 |
July 3 |
Deer |
visitor center |
July 3 |
Skunk |
Hwy 29 |
July 3 |
Fawn |
visitor center |
July 2 |
Least bittern |
Hwy 26 |
July 1 |
Blackbilled cuckoo |
Blackbird Trail |
June 27 |
Raccoon, otter, indigo bunting, pelicans, swans, deer |
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June 25 |
Porcupines |
In road by rice lake |
June 22 |
Trumpeter swan family and 6 cygnets |
Mud lake areas |
June 14 |
turtle, turkey, 2 swans, malard, eagle |
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June 12 |
Bald eagles, green herons, grouse, family of swans - 7 cygnets |
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June 12 |
bald eagles |
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June 10 |
Geese and turtle |
road and behind building |
June 8 |
Geese |
Ottertail river |
June 7 |
deer, turtle, trumpter swans, pelicans, canadian geese, great blue heron, swam sparrow |
Blackbird lake, Pine lake |
June 5 |
golden eagle / bald eagle |
on way into park |
June 2 |
Loon / deer |
by lake |
June 2 |
white tail fawn and doe, candian goose |
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June 2 |
Bald eagle / 2 white tail deer |
entrance |
June 1 |
6 pair of ring-neck ducks |
Ponds by turn on 26 |
June 1 |
Pair of Canvas back |
Blackbird Lake |
May 31 |
5 Trumpeter Swans, pr of geese with gosling, pair of yellow finches |
Hwy 29 |
May 29 |
2 porcupines in tree |
Autotrail |
May 29 |
Muskrat, 2 broods of geese |
Hwy 29 |
May 29 |
Deer |
Visitor Center trail |
May 27 |
Purple martins, Common yellow throat |
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May 25 |
Blackbilled cuckoo |
Hwy 29 |
May 22 |
2 Deer, 2 turkeys,2pair blue wing teal, snapping turtle |
Hwy 29 |
May 16 |
6 trumpeter swans, 3 turkey, 1 bald eagle |
Blackbird lake |
May 15 |
1 osprey, 2 trumpter swans |
Hwy 26 |
May 10 |
Turkey buzzard |
Hwy 26 |
May 2 |
Bald eagle, 1 deer |
Bruce Blvd. |
April 16 |
2 trumpter swans |
Hwy 29 |
April 8 |
2 deer |
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March 23 |
gray (timber) wolf |
6 mi. south of Visitor Center at refuge entrance |
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