After leaving Armitage Road, John and I drove to the Preserve and
spent a few hours (mostly in the dark) walking a long loop. First of
all, it was buggy - mainly mosquitoes - but nowhere nearly as bad as
you get on Howland Island in the summer! As the evening progressed,
the chorus of tree frogs, green frogs, and an occasional bull frog
became deafening. We did hear one AMERICAN BITTERN, 3 VIRGINIA RAILS,
several MARSH WRENS, several PIED-BILLED GREBES, and a COMMON MOORHEN,
all without playback. We got one SORA to respond and were unable to
pull out any Least Bitterns.
As Ken and others have recently mentioned, the area of restored
habitat is huge, with many miles of easy walking trails. There are
quite a few vernal wetlands, cattail marshes, and even areas of open
water. And hundreds of acres of restored grasslands. I look forward to
going back up there, perhaps in the early morning when the frog chorus
will have subsided.
Bob McGuire
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