Once upon a time there was a nice wetland NW of Palo along Lewis Bottoms Rd., with mud for migrant shorebirds and habitat for Yellow-headed Blackbirds and Least Bitterns,etc. But the area was tiled and drained a couple of years ago. Recent rains have put a little water back into the western section under the power lines, and at 5 PM tonight Linda Rudolph & I found a late Ross' Goose (with two Snow Geese) and a lone Am. Avocet. At Pleasant Creek Lake were Eared & Horned Grebes, two Common Loons, two Red-breasted Mergansers and a Red-breasted Nuthatch (first time I've used those two in the same sentence). Bill Scheible Cedar Rapids
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