5/26/24 - Montezuma N.W.R. complex, Savannah/Tyre/Montezuma/Seneca Falls, NY Observers: Andrew BlockTime: 9:15 to 530pm many Canada Geese1 Mute Swan5 Trumpeter Swans (1 crippled; Sandhill Crane Unit, Main Pool, May's Pt. Pool) several Wood Ducks2 Gadwallsmany Mallards3 Redheads1 Northern Pintailmany Pied-billed Grebes4 Mourning Doves1 Sora3+ American Cootsmany Common Gallinules7 Sandhill Cranes (LaRue's Lagoon, Sandhill Crane Unit, Tschache Pool) 1 Killdeer10+ Caspian Ternsseveral Black Terns7+ Double-crested Cormorants4 American Bitternsmany Great Blue Herons1 Great Egret2 Black-crowned Night-Herons3 Turkey Vultures2 Ospreys3 Bald Eagles2 Red-tailed Hawks2 Red-bellied Woodpeckers4 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers1 Downy Woodpecker3 Northern Flickers1 Pileated Woodpecker1 Eastern Kingbird2 Great Crested Flycatchers2 Eastern Wood-Pewees2 Alder Flycatchersseveral Willow Flycatchers2 Least Flycatchers3+ Red-eyed Vireos4 Warbling Vireos7+ American Crowsmany Tree Swallowsseveral Barn Swallowsseveral Purple Martinsseveral Bank Swallowsseveral Cedar Waxwings1 House Wrenmany Marsh Wrens1 Carolina Wren5 Gray Catbirdsmany European Starlings1 Eastern Bluebird4 American Robins3 House Sparrows3 American Goldfinches5+ Chipping Sparrows4 Song Sparrows1 Baltimore Oriolemany Red-winged Blackbirds6 Common Grackles1 Ovenbird5+ Common Yellowthroats3+ American Redstarts3 Cerulean Warblers6 Yellow Warblers2 Northern Cardinals1 Indigo Bunting Also had an American Mink, Snapping Turtle, 30+ huge Common Carps, Midland Painted Turtles, and several leps and dragonflies. Andrew Andrew BlockConsulting Naturalist Yonkers, New York www.flickr.com/photos/conuropsis/albums --
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