The snowy egret hung around until dusk last night, then flew to the north. With today’s nice weather, perhaps it will stick around. It has been seen down by the spillway, across the river and the gull tree across from the main pool. I understand it has been quite active. When I was there later
The SNOWY EGRET was present early this morning in the same area, along the
rocky shore of the river just at the mouth of the main pool
outflow/spillway ("carp spot") along the drive. It was reported this
afternoon from the same area on eBird as well. Other highlights from a
quick morning trip were
We went up today and the Snowy was a no-show as we checked the expected
areas. Lots if birders. A terrific selection of waterfowl made the trip
worthwhile.
John and Sue
On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 10:57 AM Suan Hsi Yong wrote:
> Photos were posted to the Facebook group "Birds of Montezuma National
I should follow up and say that that Facebook group has become
immensely popular, currently with 11.4K members, and may well have the
broadest reach of any electronic group related to birds in the basin
(though they still lose out to "Bald Eagles of Onondaga Lake" with
18.8K members), and may well
Photos were posted to the Facebook group "Birds of Montezuma National
Wildlife Refuge" by Bob and Diane Slater on Monday, November 13, at
6:30pm. A comment says "it flew in front of us around 4:30 pm, in the
dead tree near the Eagle tree".
The post URL is
Today I learned of - and eventually saw - a regionally rare Snowy Egret along
the Wildlife Drive at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge.
I first learned of it from a text rare bird alert from Mark Miller at 10:25am
that it was “last seen at Seneca Flats,” but I wondered about Mark’s use of
I went out fairly late today, so didn't see a lot. I saw snow geese
near my house on Chestnut Ridge Rd. in Sennett. Went by the Mud Lock
eagle's nest but no one was home. Drove through Montezuma, but
nothing much different- C geese and swans.. At Benning, there was a
Great Blue Heron.
In spite of intensive searching on the part of the counters yesterday, the
Snowy Owl was not found.
It will be interesting to see if it turns up somewhere on the Complex on the
Winter Raptor Survey this much-calmer afternoon.
Jane Graves
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