Just a few highlights of the birding trip I was on with the Eaton group today.
Many of the same things Tom and friends found, including an abundance of
raptors--Redtails, Rough-leggeds, Harriers, Bald Eagles. Chuck Gibson spotted
two Sandhill Cranes out at the VanDyne Spoor section. On our way back through
Knox-Marsellus there were 14 Sandhills at the near edge, but they flew and
landed on one of the roadways out on the muck. On the Wildlife Drive, a Snow
Bunting was picking along the roadside opposite LaRue's Lagoon. We missed the
Dunlins at the VC but Lynn spotted one in that newly-bulldozed area before the
curve.
After the group left I had another hour so I made another trip around the
Wildlife Drive. The Snow Bunting was still pecking along in the same place--two
hours later! I came upon a vehicle whose occupant was studying a bird in a tree
on the far side of the river so I stopped to look, too. A Peregrine Falcon (he
had seen it land) apparently having enjoyed a good meal, was preening,
stretching its wings. We watched for some time before heading on down the
drive, and a few minutes later I saw it flying over my car and out over the
marsh. Back on RT89 I stopped at that east-facing overlook and saw over 70
swans on "Black Lake"--couldn't ID them with just binoculars. Someone with
better optics might want to check them out.
-----Kathy Strickland, Union Springs
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