This was my "home" NWR when I was an undergrad at Evergreen State College. The key at Nisqually is that it was already poldered with dikes by the farmer that previously owned the delta so that a walking circuit already exisited (and cut off the salt marsh estuary). Montezuma doesn't have an open circuit (that I know of) to allow walkers to make a loop around a sizeable chunk of good marsh/mudflat habitat and return to the visitor's center lot without backtracking. Single viewing outposts are often devoid of optimally viewable birds.
James Norwalk Animal and Plant Care Technician Hobart and William Smith Colleges Eaton Hall 302 Geneva, NY 14456 315-781-3919 From: "Barbara B. Eden" <b...@cornell.edu<mailto:b...@cornell.edu>> Reply-To: "Barbara B. Eden" <b...@cornell.edu<mailto:b...@cornell.edu>> Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 6:14 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu<mailto:cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] MNWR and pedestrians All, This place can be a potential model for Montezuma. http://www.fws.gov/refuge/nisqually/ It is much larger but it is only for pedestrians and birds are close to the boardwalk and also far away. Wouldn’t those birds who are more skittish stay farther away from the pedestrians? ~Barbara -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
