Bird Survey for September 28, 2021

by | Sep 29, 2021 | Bird Counts, Cattails

I saw IT!!  FINALLY!!  Monday morning I saw the glossy ibis in Seneca Flats as I was surveying before I opened the Visitors’ Center. I’m including a picture and apologize for the poor quality since it was raining, so you won’t think I’m making...

Bird Survey for September 24, 2021

by | Sep 25, 2021 | Bird Counts, Cattails

Of the recent unusual birds that have been reported, we did not see the spoonbill, phalaropes, willets or godwit. We also did not see the ibis during our survey, but Pete went out on his way home.  He got a quick glimpse of it flying into the north end of Seneca Flats...

Bird Survey for September 21, 2021

by | Sep 22, 2021 | Bird Counts, Cattails

We surveyed Tschache and May’s Point Pools yesterday.  Both units have high water so we didn’t have many great blues and no egrets. As a matter of fact most of the great blues were on the dikes so I think they were hunting frogs. For several weeks whenever...

Bird Survey for September 17, 2021

by | Sep 18, 2021 | Bird Counts, Cattails

We surveyed Tschache and May’s Point Pools yesterday. May’s was quiet in the open water areas, but I’m pretty sure there are ducks out of sight, back in the cattails. Tschache had 7 species of ducks that we could detect, the trumpeter swan family with all 6 cygnets...

Bird Survey for September 14, 2021

by | Sep 16, 2021 | Bird Counts, Cattails

There are LOTS of ducks, geese and yellowlegs in the Visitors’ Center Wetland!! They are there, yet hard to see in the vegetation.  The good news is that there are some areas where they are tramping down the vegetation giving us some “windows”...