This afternoon a trip through the refuge brought nothing rare but higher
water on the main pool diluted the smell of rotting carp and last week's
congregation of 20+ eagles had moved on. Here are some family highlights of
the day;
- The winner of the cutest babies contest was a family of 3 tiny baby
Spotted Sandpipers with parent on the main pool edge opposite Benning Marsh.
They were very difficult to find as their peeping sounded like it was 30
feet away from where they were.
- The family of Wood Ducks continues at Larue lagoon and a small family
with only 3 young was at the last pool at the very end of the wildlife
drive.
- 4 teenage Hooded Mergansers were on a log in the same pond.
- Common Gallinules had 3 brand new babies at the south end of Eaton
Marsh and a dense clump at the north end held a Gallinule on the nest.
- Pied-billed Grebes had a teenager at Eaton Marsh and one on a nest
near the end of Van Dyne Spoor Road.
- Trumpeter Swans with young were on Tschasche pool with 1 Common Tern
feeding around them.
- We had no luck with the Red-headed Woodpeckers at May's Point and
although, hopefully wrong, Starlings were all around the previously
contested nest hole.
- Sandhill Cranes with their colt were still reported at Knox-Marcellus
marsh but not seen by us.
- A Horned Lark took a mouthful of insects into the grass along East
Road and fed a tailless barely feathered fledgling.
- 2 Black-crowned Night Herons were seen at Van Dyne Spoor Road with
one carrying a long stick out to about the middle of the marsh.
-Black Terns were represented at every cattail marsh with one carrying
food at both the main pool and Van Dyne Spoor Road.
Mike and Joann Tetlow
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