Sorry I didn't get this out earlier. Bob Guthrie and I spent a long and nice day at Montezuma NWR Saturday. Highlights follow. East Road early: 100 goldfinches in field and trees with several White-crowned and White-throated Sparrows Visitor's Center morning: Black-bellied Plovers, Dunlin, Solitary Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs. Drive: Ring-necked Ducks, American Coot, Redhead, Lesser Scaup, Gadwall, Northern Shoveler Benning Marsh: White-rumped Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper Tschache: 2 Great Egrets in a tree south from the tower Towpath: 9 Sandhill Cranes, White-throated and White-crowned Sparrows, Ruby-crowned Kinglets and Yellow-rumped Warblers We looked over the Snow Geese for Ross's Goose but could not find one - many geese had their heads tucked in (morning & afternoon). Most of the Tree Swallows today were at Van Dyne Spoor Road but we found 1 Barn Swallow, 2 Rough-winged Swallows and a Tree Swallow at May's Point Visitor's Center afternoon: 7 Greater-White fronted Geese that we showed to many people, White-rumped Sandpipers, Dunlin, Semipalmated Sandpiper & the plovers North Spring Pool: a Peregrine Falcon in a close dead tree. Leona Lauster Lyons, NY
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