This morning during a home school student migration tour, we spotted a FOY (for me!) pied-billed grebe actively feeding in the Crane Unit, off of VanDyne Spoor Rd, Savannah, Wayne County. The side of the road that the grebe was on is considered Refuge lands, and the other side is state land. Great habitat!
Lot's of other ducks present (mainly N. Pintail), red-winged blackbirds, gulls (Larus sp.), eagles soaring around. AND a lot of muskrat activity. Frank with the DEC told me that if I'm seeing them on land and active like that, their like "runners", or the individuals who have been run off by their family unit. Young from last year, likely. It's really evident pre-growing season how many muskrat huts are actually out in any given marsh. Great sightings for the kids and myself! Alyssa Johnson Environmental Educator Montezuma Audubon Center 2295 State Route 89 P.O. Box 187 Savannah, New York 13146 (315) 365-3588 Audubon NY- Montezuma<http://ny.audubon.org/Montezuma> Montezuma Audubon Center on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/MontezumaAudubonCenter/> -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
