Stricker’s Pond on Madison’s west side is one of many local landscape features created during glaciation.  Roughly ten thousand years ago, a block of ice was buried in the earth as the glacier receded.  When the ice later melted, a “kettle” formed in the void and filled with water, creating a wetland with no natural outlet.  It now provides habitat for a variety of birds, turtles, and frogs. Herons and other wading birds stalk the shores and migrating warblers feed in the canopies of mature oaks surrounding the pond.  In spring and fall, large numbers of migrating waterfowl visit the pond.   

City of Madison Parks