Good morning everyone,
We've been beginning to get a lot of calls, emails, and Facebook messages
asking about the return of the Snow Geese, and other migratory waterfowl! I
will try to share updates this way, as well as on our Montezuma Audubon Center
Facebook
Montezuma Waterfowl Tour Wed. March 1, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.Join Montezuma
Audubon Center Director Chris Lajewski for a tour of the Montezuma Wetlands
Complex to experience the incredible number of waterfowl that are migrating
through right now! Hop in our van and Chris will take you to
Yesterday Dominic Sherony and I put a fair amount of time in to
estimating numbers and percentages of waterfowl on the main pool at
Montezuma. Here is the ebird checklist. Particularly noteworthy for me is
the decrease in Ring-necks and huge increase in Lesser Scaup over the last
couple weeks
John Confer and I spent the morning in the Montezuma area helping with the
spring waterfowl count. We checked with the other counters at noon and found
that there was nothing new for the Basin to report (no more Shovelers, no
Blue-winged Teal, no Ospreys).
As we got out of the car at the DEC
