I checked Dryden Lake and George Road this morning. Dryden Lake was all but empty, with a couple of Mallards, Ring-billed Gulls, and two Pied-billed Grebes the only birds on the lake. I had a Winter Wren and a lot of Yellow-rumped Warblers and Swamp Sparrows along the trail, but little else of note. George Road was a little more active, with 4 BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 35+ GREEN-WINGED TEAL (in a tight group sleeping on the shore on the George Road side), 6 NORTHERN PINTAIL, 2 RUDDY DUCKS, and *5* AMERICAN COOTS, easily the most coots I have ever seen in Dryden, where even a single bird is not always an annual event. I wasn't able to find any shorebirds, although the habitat still looks decent.
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