Around the drive at MNWR were many people looking for the mystery
"cinnamon" teal. No one we talked to had seen it. Frogs & turtles were
out enjoying the warm day. Becky helped a painted turtle across the
road. A crow captured a leopard frog & flew away with it. We saw more
frogs on the road across from Larue's & more crows watching for them.
Love the harriers & juvenile bald eagles.
Has anyone noticed that what may be a new pool is being dug in the field
toward the Thruway north from Eaton Marsh between Benning & the river?
That is probably where the dirt is coming from to make the raised area
across from the Thruway fence.
Today Becky & I saw no fewer than 43 sandhill cranes continuing at
Knox-Marcellus. Time was short so we couldn't stay long.
What was of importance to us was the remains of the lone house on East
Rd., once owned by my distant Mennonite cousin. It burnt to the ground
either Fri. night or sometime Sat.. It was still smouldering this
afternoon & we could feel the heat from it. Becky & I had been by it at
almost dark on Fri. evening & saw voluminous clouds of black smoke
coming from the chimney, something I'd never seen in all the yrs. I'd
been by there or when I'd stopped to visit Janelle. The house was heated
by a wood furnace in the basement.
We saw Jackie Bakker & Larue St.Clair at the entrance to the refuge but
they had no news nor had they been by the house. The nearest fire dept.
is in Montezuma village. Such a sad loss. Just wanted fellow birders to
know when & what as that gray house has been a marker for a number of yrs..
Yesterday on Mill pond, we had many mallards, several prs. of buffles &
2 female woodies. Today 2 teachers had at least 20 middle school youths
at the gazebo, looking at the buffle-heads.
Fritzie B.
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