My apologies for not sending this out sooner. Got to Montezuma around 7:15 yesterday morning (9/1). Highlights: 7:15 Auto Loop harrier, osprey, N. shoveler, blue winged teal, some shorebirds but not many, trumpeter swans @ Benning Marsh 8 Mays Point (revisited at 1pm - smaller #'s) great egret, great blue herons, gallinule (moorhen), g. yellowlegs, semi-palmated plover, killdeer coot 9 am Towpath cedar waxwings, sm flock warblers-only id'd magnolia, Caspian terns, great egrets, great blue herons, sandhill cranes 9:45 East Rd great egrets, cormorants, great blue herons, lg flock swallows (200+), small flocks of: goldfinch, rw blackbirds, starlings 10:30 Savannah Spring Lake Rd short-billed dowitchers, greater and lesser yellowlegs, mallards, great blue heron 11:15 Railroad Rd. bluebirds (where we had them last year @ start of dirt road) trumpeters (1 imm, 1 adult) black crowned night heron (2 imm., 1 adult) glossy ibis (may be same one seen at Mays Point in earlier days of week; anyone notice distinct amount of white on upper throat?) noon Van Dyne Spoor gallinule, coot, cormorant, N. Harrier, redtail hawk, ring billed gull
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