Bird Survey for April 29, 2022

by | Apr 29, 2022 | Bird Counts, Cattails

  We had a beautiful, sunny, yet cold day at the Refuge yesterday. There were lots of cool birds.  Pete spotted a Wilson’s snipe in the southern end of Larue’s Lagoon and a small flock of dunlin in Seneca Flats.  I saw an American bittern and heard a Virginia Rail in...

Bird Survey for April 26, 2022

by | Apr 27, 2022 | Bird Counts, Cattails

 Monday’s southerly winds must have brought a bunch of bald eagles to Tschache Pool.  We saw mostly immatures, EVERYWHERE!!  WOW, we recorded 26 but there were probably way more. It was difficult to keep track of them while trying to properly survey waterfowl. We did...

Bird Survey for April 20, 2022

by | Apr 20, 2022 | Bird Counts, Cattails

  We opted to switch our survey from Tuesday to Wednesday this week due to the prediction of inclement weather for Tuesday. That was a good choice since we enjoyed a mostly sunny, yet windy and cool day with no precipitation! We found small numbers of waterfowl in the...

Bird Survey for April 15, 2022

by | Apr 16, 2022 | Bird Counts, Cattails

  Yesterday we started our survey from the Seneca Trail Tower.  Before we even got to the top, we could see several immature bald eagles flying around in the southern end of the Main Pool. From the top we found 6 immature bald eagles either standing on the ground or...

Bird Survey for April 12, 2022

by | Apr 13, 2022 | Bird Counts, Cattails

  We enjoyed a pleasant day at the Refuge yesterday.  We started at Tschache Pool Tower where there were still good looks at the great blue heron colony, also called a rookery or heronry. We noticed many of the herons returning to the nests were carrying nesting...