Speaking of frogs as bird food, a couple weekends ago, a juvenile Wood Duck at
the Lab of O was seen eating them. I thought Wood Ducks were vegetarians, as do
cursory descriptions from a few sources, but I guess not.
Of course I did not have my camera with me to document it :-).
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Peregrine Watch cancelled.
The State Park called and said their biologists concluded it would be too
stressful to have a viewing event before the birds fledge, and are rescinding
the permit.
They said we could have a viewing event after they fledge, but then we would
just be showing an empty le
With respect to touch ups and blending and AI, I think anything is fine as long
as you're honest about what you've done and where you got it (in the wild, at a
zoo or aviary, etc). Contests and publications can, of course, set rules on
what is acceptable. The real ethically problematic part is d
FOY ovenbird at monkey run south, silently foraging on the ground.
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A FOY house wren was singing at lighthouse point this morning, along with
Carolina Wren and a Winter Wren with a very interesting intro to its song,
while working with the Cayuga Bird Club conservation action committee and some
Cornell women's soccer players clearing privet.
Also heard Rusty Bl
Just watched a pair of Red-tailed Hawk chasing a Broad-winged Hawk near the
intersection of Giles and 79. The broadwing circled high to leave the scene
while the redtails continued to circle low.
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Perhaps others have heard their return already, but Louisiana Waterthrush is
singing at Mulholland, FOY for me.
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Sparrow? I'm still not sure that it's the same bird that sang the earlier song, but I guess it's possible.SuanOn Apr 1, 2024, at 1:18 PM, Laura Stenzler wrote:
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This was singing this morning at 10:30 in Varna at the intersection of the
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I don't know what it is, though I have a guess.
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FOY4me YB Sapsucker today at six mile creek second reservoir. I know a few
overwinter here and there, but I'm guessing this one just arrived from
somewhere warmer.
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A field sparrow was foraging on the slope next to Myers Road just north of the
intersection to Salt Point. Took a while to work out its ID, especially with
its torso feathers fluffed out so it looked fatter than a usual field sparrow
look. This was probably around 11am.
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Lots of birds in Renwick woods this morning just west of the stone arch,
including an American Pipit, an Audubon's Warbler and a Myrtle at least, plus
bluebirds, white-throats, ca wren, etc. Stephanie is the one who saw the
yellow-rump with a yellow throat.
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Leigh and I and two visiting birders had a birdy morning around sapsucker
woods, with a ruby-crowned kinglet showing off its red crown, first seen by the
Charlie Harper bench and working its way into the woods. That same corner stand
of white pines also hosted a brown creeper and several golden-
A female or juv red crossbill just came down to eat grit at the Hammond Hill
main parking lot. Has flown off but seemed to like that spot and may come back.
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At Cass Park's dragon boat docks, the hedges to the left of the little bay is
hosting a pair of fledgling Traill's Flycatchers being fed by a parent. Fun to
watch. I'm guessing it's Willow Flycatcher from habitat, but could perhaps be
Alder? Fledglings are making "chit" calls, parent is silent.
I caught the atlas addiction bug on June 18, and have been atlasing most
mornings since. I keep waiting for the breeding activity to taper down so I can
ease up on the atlasing, and today looked like it might be the day. I arrived
at Highland Forest east of Tully with heavy overcast and rain fal
Hi, my name is Suan and I'm addicted to atlasing. :-)
It started last Sunday when I drove up to Genoa and biked around the CE atlas
block. I found a YB Sapsucker nest with young, a BC Chickadee nest cavity
frequented by parents, a Baltimore Oriole nest, and recent fledglings - often
being fed -
This morning at Stewart Park we found an Orchard Oriole nest with nestlings
being visited frequently by a yellow female and less frequently by a
first-year-looking male, yellowish with black face and bib, with some "dirty"
plumage as it slowly transitions to second year plumage. To find the nest
Hawthorn is quiet from behind the softball field: yellow warbler, white crowned
and white throated sparrows, savannah sparrow, catbird.
The woods are still posted no entry for deer management bow-hunting. Anyone
know whether that's still active, and/or whether we can request a warbler
migration
This morning around 9am I heard a Northern Waterthrush singing at the Lab of O
in the small marsh island just east of the building, near the shed which a
sapsucker had been using as its sounding board. It sang a few times then
disappeared.
A couple people I spoke to said they heard them at thei
Louisiana Waterthrush is back singing at Six Mile Creek upstream of second
reservoir this morning. I didn't walk the trails the last two days so don't
know if they'd been back, though yesterday's evening walk did not hear any.
Winter wren continues singing in its traditional territory.
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At Stewart Park this morning I heard them saw an Osprey fly by, the call both
familiar and unrecognized at first as my gray matter librarian had to dust off
my database of summer bird sounds that had been packed away for the winter.
A singing bluebird checked out the nestbox closest to the nw co
Around noon today we saw from Union Springs a large continuum of skeins across
the lake land towards the opposite shore - we think - which according to google
maps would be offshore from Canoga where there is no public access. When we
drove back south around 2:30, we saw a few "small" islands of
I was just at Aurora where I could barely make out a "small" (~1-2k?) island of
snow geese in the distance, slightly south of due west. I suspect this is one
of the islands Geo saw from the other side, and I believe it is located in the
middle of the lake at the widest point of the lake, pretty
Around midday today while XC skiing at Bear Swamp, which had a good 6+ inches
of snow cover, I flushed from a small snow-free patch of wet grassy muck a
snipe or woodcock, which flew off not too far and interestingly looked to have
landed on a tree branch at about eye level. Alas without binocul
Just saw a flock of some 100 RW Blackbirds in Slaterville Springs on Harford
Road.
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At least one Philadelphia Vireo and Wilson's Warbler at Salt Point so far this
morning. Also an adult plumage tern at the point that looked like a sterna to
me (Common or Forster), but I don't know what to make of its the dark wingtips.
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Orchard Oriole (first year male) and Wilson's Warblers were singing at the Swan
Pen this morning, among other more usual birds.
On my bike ride home, heard Blackpoll Warbler near the wood chip piles opposite
the Newman golf course, and also along the east hill recway at the NW corner of
Hawthor
Good variety at hawthorn orchard. Just walking the north end trail so far:
parula, btgreen, b&w, Blackburnian, chestnut sided, nashville, yellow rumped.
White crowned and white throated sparrows. Great crested flycatcher. Blue
headed and warbling vireos.
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Hawthorn orchards was quiet this morning, no big arrival due to overnight storm
I guess. Only warblers were one yellow warbler and two common yellowthroats.
Blue-headed vireo, eastern towhee, and wood thrush were the only other
highlights. A few ruby-crowned kinglets and white-throated sparrows
Stopped by Goetchius wetland preserve this morning and was treated to a
wonderful air show by a winnowing Wilson's Snipe. The unmistakable winnowing
sound could be easily heard coming in waves one after the next, but spotting
the bird in the sky was trickier until I figured out how high to look,
Had one, maybe two, at jetty woods as well this morning for the cac activity, a
silent one seen before the Osprey platform fairway, one heard singing from the
middle of the woods.
Great looks at the cormorants' double crests as they establish nests on a
couple of trees.
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Beginner bird walk at sapsucker woods this morning saw three loons flying over
quite low over the parking lot, about three dozen rusty blackbirds moving
across the road in waves, stopping atop some trees only long enough to
frustrate my scoping attempts, a pine warbler in the woods pointed out t
Two broad winged hawks circling quite low over Commonland by six mile creek,
both making their squeal calls.
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Surprised to see a vesper flush from the levee behind Home Depot / Kohl's up to
a tree.
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At least three louisiana waterthrushes singing at Lick Brook this morning, one
of them with a faster repeating chop-chop-chop-chop start to its song
reminiscent of a northern's rhythm, but less textured.
Didn't hear any at six mile creek yesterday though I haven't been down today.
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Jay just reported 50k+ at the Mucklands.
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> Hi all,
> Does anyone know if the snow geese are still up at the mucklands and also,
> how are the roads between there and Ithaca?
Route 31 mucklands (erstwhile potatoes building site) is the place to be for
snow geese. Flooded fields are full of sngo.
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> Modest island(s) of snow geese in middle of Ca
Modest island(s) of snow geese in middle of Cayuga lake north of Aurora,
visible from Mackenzie Childs, pretty far out.
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Cattle egret continues north of Cass park ice rink parking lot.
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area are Vesper Sparrows, along with plentiful Eastern Bluebirds
and circling Turkey Vultures.
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> Grasshopper Sparrow continues on compost piles near piglets cor
Grasshopper Sparrow continues on compost piles near piglets corner.
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Another spoonbill has been reported at montezuma by the eagle sculpture, photo
posted on Facebook.
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> A ROSEATE SPOONBILL is being seen at Chenango Valley State Park Broome C
Black billed cuckoo also heard singing at lower Treman state park, heard
distant singing approx from direction of the campgrounds.
Seems like a banner spring for BBCU?
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New yard bird for me (actually a house bird): a black billed cuckoo was singing
a long series of po-po-po-po outside my house in Commonland. When I got outside
with my binoculars and camera, it didn't sing again and was not found.
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There's a dying Great Blue Heron at bluegrass lane, at the far eastern end of
the pond east of the complex of buildings, just north of the first rectangular
paddock. When I first saw it an hour ago it was hunckered low in the grass. Now
it is just sprawled, as if it may have just died. Thermal c
Like yesterday hawthorn orchard was again relatively quiet today, nashville
warblers continuing to be the dominant singer, with a good number of white
crowned sparrows singing and foraging in the freshly and messily mown grass,
joining a seemingly diminishing number of white throated sparrows.
Hawthorn was really quiet this morning by the time I met Ken and Diane by the
softball field looking for a handful of singing Nashville Warblers, who seemed
the most numerous or at least vociferous. After a quiet walk through the north
trail we heard a Blackburnian singing from the pine trees to
Decent variety but low number of warblers, mostly heard only. Nashville,
Black-throated Green, Black-throated Blue, Chestnut-sided, Yellow and Common
Yellowthroat. Also Least and Great-Crested Flycatchers by the pond to the NW,
Wood and Hermit Thrushes. FOY Baltimore Oriole, Northern Flicker, a
A friend who lives on the lake just north of east shore park reports seeing
common loons migrating through.
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At around 11am there was an Osprey, possibly the same, sitting on a tree at
jetty woods along the inlet, across from the Treman marina mouth. I was alerted
to its presence by its call, which was clearly prompted by my approach along
the trail right below it, as I looked up to see it staring down
On a short morning walk along six mile creek upstream from second dam I heard a
singing winter wren and brown creeper. Two days ago there were some 50
ring-necked ducks in the second reservoir, this morning it looks like there are
a handful still there.
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Many snow geese appear to still be hanging around the shore south of Cayuga
lake state park north of Wolffy's, at least as see through the heat shimmer
from the east end of the lake. Possibly less than yesterday?
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This morning at 9am there was a rough legged hawk hovering and hunting near the
corner of Ellis Hollow and Game Farm roads. It was accompanied by a second
buteo, presumably a redtail. I stopped briefly to snap some photos en route to
an appointment.
At 10:30 on the way back from the appointment
While cross-country skiing through Hammond Hill, I saw a flock of about 50
small birds moving through some evergreens, in fairly tight quarters, in waves
of 5-10 at a time. The only sounds I could hear and identify were chickadee
chips and calls. I'm used to only encountering chickadees in small
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> Saw what I'm pretty sure was an orange crowned warbler at salt point, in an
> active area between south trail and salmon creek, with many waxwings, a
> black-throated green and a yellow-rumped warblers.
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Saw what I'm pretty sure was an orange crowned warbler at salt point, in an
active area between south trail and salmon creek, with many waxwings, a
black-throated green and a yellow-rumped warblers.
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There's a raft of some 50 or so Bonaparte's Gulls off Stewart Park, easier to
ID with scope than binoculars.
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Took a walk around Lindsay Parsons, still plenty of fall colors. Just to the
east of the railway tracks, from the bench at the northernmost point along the
orange trail, a Ruffed Grouse could be heard drumming. One was drumming there
when I visited in the spring also. Later along the red trail i
I was windsurfing between east shore park and the piling cluster. Somewhere
near the middle of the lake, just south of the piling cluster, I was surprised
to see a little shorebird flying away from me. "What are you doing out here,
peep?" I thought, and then saw the bird land just a few feet awa
A common nighthawk just flew north along the inlet from the octupus. Seen from
our concert band's distanced outdoor rehearsal. An adult bald eagle also made
an appearance. Really augmenting my "concert band birding list".
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Yesterday evening around 7, while biking up Buffalo St, I heard some strange
vocalizations that eventually included some more familiar merlin calls as one
bird flew over to a tree at the corner with Schuyler Place. No binoculars so
did not see the noisemakers, but the unusualness could be a fled
When I arrived at Shindagin Hollow's little wetland area, a largish brown heron
flushed up to a tree. My first thought was "Bittern in a tree would make for an
interesting photo". My first thought should've been "that's strange", as after
slowly approaching the tree and scanning through the foli
3 ruddy turnstones and one semi plover at Myers north edge of parking lot while
kids play at spit.
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FOY prothonotary warbler at Howland island by kayak. Water level is high,
Carncross Road is flooded past the bridge towards the high parking lot.
Also in the flooded woods are at least two northern waterthrushes.
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“My” six-mile-creek Louisiana Waterthrush is also back this afternoon, not
singing like I was listening for, but calling its sharp chip calls as it
surveyed its turf up back and forth along the creek before landing fairly close
on a tree for good ID-confirming views of its tail-pumping gray-and-
FOY Ruby-crowned Kinglet singing its bubbly song here in Commonland.
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Savannah Sparrow at Long Point (plus meadowlark), Field Sparrow at Aurora
Bluffs, Swamp Sparrows along Wildlife Drive (westbound leg mainly).
Shovelers and Green-Winged Teals are the main birds at MNWR. Several shovelers
were happily foraging close to the wildlife drive while Meena and I looked
On Stevenson Road I was biking,
A meow from the hedge was most striking,
The tone wasn’t hoarse,
Not a catbird, of course,
Sapsucker! I said, to my liking.
But the next meow came out all flat,
It sounded just like... a house cat!?
Then some chirps, then a jeer,
The ID became clear,
‘Twas a mocking
Two horned grebe on Jennings Pond also, one in confusing transitional plumage,
with the facial pattern looking more like an “ear” than a “horn”, but I think I
spied a white tip on the bill.
Also had 17 green-winged teals, I think, which took off and flew away when
flushed on my kayak.
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> Walking along busy Meadow St by the Mobil (State St), I just saw two buteos
> circlin
Walking along busy Meadow St by the Mobil (State St), I just saw two buteos
circling and moving slowly towards NE. Without binoculars one was too high to
ID but the other was low and showed the dark wrist of a rough legged, and was
soaring with a slight dihedral. Looked smaller than a redtail, n
Just had a brief look at a warbler at Salt Point that suggested Cape May
Warbler, but flew off before it could be more definitively ID’ed, towards the
middle where I’ve thus far been unsuccessful at relocating. Impression was too
much yellow on the breast to be myrtle (though lighting was bad) a
I’m right now listening to and watching two Merlins calling to each other from
deciduous trees in the block north of GIAC (Albany and Court) around the
swimming pool and field. Saw them copulating I think (no binoculars). Not sure
where the nest might be. There might actually be three Merlins ca
Brief stop at Hawthorn this morning found the trees hopping with Wilson, blue
wing, chestnut, Nashville; poss vireo sweep with red-eye, warbling,
blue-headed, and a sorta-yellow sorta-warblerish bird high in the tree that
could be a Philadelphia video. May or may not have gotten lousy photos to
FOY Louisiana Waterthrush heard from six mile creek behind Commonland, upstream
from second dam. Also heard from same spot a Winter Wren and Brown Creeper.
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A beautiful fox sparrow is hanging around at the Sapsucker Woods feeder area
with the juncos and white-throated sparrows and American tree sparrows. A
cooper flushed the lot so they’re in hiding right now, but are probably still
around.
Not wanting to be too cavalier about broadcasting owl sigh
Just had two nighthawks fly low over a friend’s house in Cortland near Yaman
Park, just east of I-81.
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Red knot still at Myers along shore of salmon creek just past parking area.
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Hi all,
Dave Gislason and I will be leading a Cayuga Bird Club field trip this Sunday
to Connecticut Hill. Meet to carpool at 7:30 in the Wegmans parking lot (SW
corner, away from the store, next to the water channel), or meet at the
intersection of Boylan and Connecticut Hill and Lloyd Starks
I was surprised to hear an eastern wood-pewee singing in the fall creek
neighborhood, one block north of the baseball field north of BJM school/GIAC.
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Went to FLLT’s Logan Hill Preserve in Candor this morning, in the first field
at the top where the road turns a corner, I heard a blue-winged warbler which I
got visuals on, and saw a nice black throat and eye triangle on an otherwise
yellow bird: a Lawrence’s Warbler (Blue-Winged x Golden-Winge
Went searching for whippoorwill at Hawthorn this morning with my thermal
camera: no luck. The muddy heart of the orchard was quiet, though I did see a
Hermit Thrush. The northern slope and ravine area had more activity, with a
dozen or more White-Throated Sparrows foraging and singing. In the mi
Winter wren singing its beautiful song at Mulholland wildflower preserve, just
past the first sharp bend on the trail from the parking lot.
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There was one American Pipit at salt point, flew off when I wasn't looking.
Also a northern mockingbird by the parking lot.
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Red-headed woodpecker continues at the same white oak in Palmer Woods this
morning (as pointed out to me by CU student Jeremy), hanging out on the north
facing side, looking to be making OCD adjustments to its granary.
I had a follow-up message last week, including photos, that may have been
sw
There's a red headed woodpecker at Palmer Woods, north side, 42.461656 N
76.481159 W, first seen attacking a pileated woodpecker who held fast for a bit
before fleeing. It's been foraging and stashing food in a white oak, and making
occasional forays to shoo off interloping blue jays. It appears
Morning walk at sapsucker woods had a swainson's thrush at Charlie Harper bench
foraging on red berries. Also the quiet singing of a winter wren, I thought.
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Big Painted Lady irruption this year, was detected early elsewhere, and now
coming through our neck of the woods. The species has an almost worldwide
distribution, and is famous for their migrations, but they're irruptive and
irregular (another way of saying we don't fully understand when and wh
Arrived around 10am at Larue's lagoon to enjoy the least bittern show (second
pool to the right), with first one then two birds hunting out in the open
(albeit tending towards the far side of the pool) and at least two more calling
from shuffling patches of cattails, every now and then one flyin
Spotted sandpiper is more commonly encountered along riverbanks and especially
lakeshores around here, but I've certainly come across a few solitary
sandpipers as well, especially in the Cayuga Inlet. Spotted is horizontal and
"flatter", solitary is taller with long legs and neck, and will "stan
So, to my mystery song query below, some have suggested white-throated sparrow
or yellow-throated warbler (out of range here, and thus unfamiliar to many
here), but most had the same conclusion I had, which is a prairie warbler, in
particular this fellow:
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In spite of rain and thunder in the forecast, six people joined Dave Gislason
and I on the CBC field trip to Connecticut Hill. While looking for a singing
chestnut-sided warbler with my thermal infrared camera, I found instead a
ruby-throated hummingbird sitting in its tiny lichen-lined nest hig
Hi all,
I'll be leading a Cayuga Bird Club field trip tomorrow (Sunday, June 4) to
Connecticut Hill. We'll meet 7:30am at the Wegmans parking lot (Southwest
corner, by the little creek, away from the store), and proceed to the
intersection of Connecticut Hill Rd., Boylan Rd., and Lloyd Starks R
Yesterday our SFO group had a pine warbler at Greensprings Cemetery (in
Newfield) singing from one of the scattered smallish pines (~20 feet tall) in
the mostly open fields. Great eye-level looks for this species, from a tree
that looked (to me) too small and isolated to be good habitat. And it
Just photographed a low close silently foraging swainson's thrush in the
hawthorn orchard's "crossroad piazza" along the north trail. It was moving
south.
Earlier had an uncooperative singing hooded which I think I saw fly away into
the distance, and I can hear tennessee, alder flycatcher, yell
And if it hasn't been reported yet, chimney swifts are back chittering over the
"foothills under collegetown", around Stewart and Seneca.
Suan
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On an evening outing around the second dam reservoir of six-mile creek, I was
surprised to surprise a common loon fishing at the mouth of the creek entering
the reservoir, getting to about 30 feet of the bird who dove and swam away
upstream with intent but not too much urgency.
Suan
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