Andy Raupp photography

Name: Andy Raupp photography
Address: Oneida county, Minocqua, WI, 53939, US
Telephone: +18476449386

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06/18/2026

A Baltimore Oriole coming in for a landing!

06/17/2026

A singing Bobolink!

Before the move up north one of the last places I wanted to stop for a bird photography outing was a large grasslands area in Central Wisconsin to hopefully see some of these birds.

Bobolinks are birds you will only see in a very specific type of habitat, that being large grasslands. Up in the Northwoods now I don’t know how much of that habitat is around here yet (if any), so I was glad to get to see a handful of these birds one more time in Central Wisconsin.

They are some really cool looking birds with unique songs and calls. In my opinion they actually sound a lot like R2D2 in Star Wars lol.

Here is a photo of a male Bobolink doing some singing over his territory!

06/16/2026

A Loon on a Lake!

I’ve officially caught the Loon bug up here, and have been exploring various lakes in the area in search of these birds lately.

In Central Wisconsin I would look forward to the few weeks in April when we might see these birds as they migrated through.
Now living up north where they breed and spend their summers is a real treat. They’re such an interesting and pretty bird!

06/15/2026

Wood Duck Nest Box Video!

On the old family property we had around eight wood duck boxes in total on the property, and usually about four or five of them would be used every year by nesting wood ducks.
Wood ducks are cavity nesting birds and rely on tree cavities made by woodpeckers or man-made nest boxes.
Two years ago we put a nest box camera in a wood duck box near our home. Unfortunately, the first year the camera was in the box no wood ducks used that box.
However, this past spring, a Hen wood duck decided to nest in this box!
I was really excited to hopefully get some photos of the wood duck chicks jumping out of the nest box, unfortunately with the move I just missed the “jump day” by a few days.
Here is a short video though with an inside look from the nest box. This hen spent 32 days incubating these eggs, only leaving the nest twice a day to feed.
The day after hatching is called the “jump day“ for the wood duck chicks as they jump out of the nest box at just one day old.
The Hen wood duck handles the entire nesting and rearing process alone while the male plays no role in parenting.
It was kind of hard to tell in the video, but I believe around eight wood duck chicks hatched and fledged from this nest box.
I hope you all enjoy the video! 🐣

P.S.
A special thanks to some family friends who changed the camera battery for me one last time a few days before they fledged.
Bad timing, the day after moving up north the camera battery died lol. But luckily the battery is located on the ground below the nest box, and a big thank you to Mike for changing out the battery so we could see these wood ducks hatch!

06/13/2026

A Chestnut-sided warbler!

Here is my first photo of a warbler in the northwoods. Like many other bird photographers and birders warblers are always one of my favorite subjects to try and photograph. Often called the jewels of the forest.
Moving to Northern Wisconsin has been excellent so far for seeing and hearing numerous different warbler species, as many of them breed here.
For example, when I started photography in northern Illinois I’d always look forward to the spring and fall migration to try and photograph warblers, however it is a fairly short timespan of generally only a few weeks.
In Kane county IL. where I started photography, only around 5-6 warbler species would actually spend their whole summers there, and would be considered their “breeding range”.
In Marquette county WI, where I spent the last 5 years, it was the breeding range for about 10 or so warbler species.
Now here in Northern Wisconsin this is the breeding range for around 20-22 different warbler species!

So far I’ve already seen or heard about a dozen or so different warbler species which has been really exciting.
The only down side is most of them have been very high up in the tree canopies and tough to get good photos of, but I’m sure I will get some more chances as time goes on.
Here was a cooperative chestnut sided warbler I photographed this week! These guys have been one of the most common warblers I have been hearing and seeing so far.
Some of the other species I have seen or heard singing on their breeding territories here include: Nashville warbler, Blackburnian, Black throated green, Golden winged, Mourning, Cape May, Pine, Black and white, Redstart, Yellow rumped, Northern Parula, Yellow, Common Yellowthroat, and the ovenbird.
Hopefully there will be some more warbler photos to come this summer! 🙂

06/11/2026

A Bobcat taking a late night stroll!

Sadly, here is my final Bobcat photo from the old property. I was thrilled though that just 3 days before packing up my trail cameras from the woods this beautiful Bobcat decided to stop by my camera for one final photo.
5 years ago I got my first Bobcat photo on a trail cam in our woods and was so excited. This animal is the main reason I got into using trail cameras/camera traps.
They’re such an elusive animal I never once saw them in person over the 5 year period we lived on the old 51 acre property. However over that time I had hundreds of maybe even a thousand videos of these bobcats on my trail cameras. They are so sneaky it’s incredible.
This photo was taken with my camera trap in our woods in late May. I still really hope to get to see and photograph a Bobcat in person one day. I have read there are actually more bobcats where we live now in Northern Wisconsin compared to where we were living in central Wisconsin. So maybe one day I will get lucky and happen to encounter one of these wild cats in the woods one day! 🤞

06/10/2026

An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly on a blooming Black Chokeberry shrub.

Yesterday I shared my first backyard bird photo from the new home, and today am sharing the first backyard butterfly photo!
Since the move up North I have noticed an abundance of these Swallowtail butterflies when driving around some of the wildlife areas.
We also have had a few of them in our yard last week feeding heavily on this native Black Chokeberry shrub. It’s kind of funny, we planted quite a few of these shrubs back at the old property as they are great for attracting wildlife. The ones at the old property were still rather small, only a few feet tall when moving, but this new home has this one very large & mature chokeberry shrub right in the backyard!
Black chokeberry is a great native shrub as the blooms attract lots of pollinators in the spring, and come late summer they produce a lot of berries that help feed birds and other wildlife!

06/09/2026

A Red breasted Nuthatch with a fresh catch!

Here is my first “backyard bird photo” from the new home.
One evening, I saw this red breasted nuthatch bouncing around one of the large balsam fir trees catching insects. After it had caught and stuffed its beak with about five of these little caterpillars it took off way up high in a tree to a nest cavity (delivering the insects to chicks in its nest!).
When I was doing my photography in Northern Illinois and Central Wisconsin, these red breasted nuthatches were birds we would generally only get to see in the winter months some years, but not every year.
Now living in the northern part of the state, these birds are year-round residences here which will be exciting because they are a fun and interesting backyard bird!

06/08/2026

A Blue Jay & Blooms!

This past May was a great month for birding and photography, and I’m still working on sharing some of the photos from then. Hope to catch up soon, but here was a Blue Jay photo in a blooming crabapple tree from last month!

06/04/2026

An Eastern Bluebird with blooming Wild Lupines in the background!

Right before moving the prairie on the property was filled with wild lupines in bloom. They were one of my favorite native plants, therefore we had planted a few of them in our yard as well.
This one was planted along the edge of the bird bath/water feature.
This Bluebird (along with many other birds) would often come in and land on this log before heading down to the water for a drink or splash.
I’m going to miss this water feature with all of the birds it attracted to our yard. However, I’m looking forward to adding a bird bath/water feature at the new home for the birds soon. It won’t be quite as elaborate, but it should still get the job done and be enjoyed by many of the local birds this summer!

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