Hello Tweeters,
I got a late start today,but least I done something to get my mid of
thinking about Patrick and Mothers Day.
At 1.00 PM the sky looked pretty dark with the wind picking up.So I decided
to going to the end of Mc. Callister Creek.
You could not avoid hearing the many Common Yellowthroads singing in a
choir.I also saw the 5 Red-necked Phalarope on the first pond there where
with the only pair of Wood Ducks saw.What was a real spectacle all the many
Swallows flying so low feeding on insects,this birds did not mind the wind.I
saw all fife species of Swallow,All the visitor who mostly all where
astonished to watch this behavior of this birds.Many ask me what kind of
birds there where.The two geese who always been on the trail had there 4
ducklings looking healthy..I also had two adult Bald Eagle soaring pretty
low presuming that this was a pair.Close to the end I had some Shorebirds,8
Long -billed Dowitchers and 1 Dunlin with few Western,and 2 Gadwalls.
Green -winged Teals,Northern Pintails,as many as 5 pairs of Cinnamon
Teals,and lot's of Northern Shovelers.I walked to the Twin Barns where I saw
1 Blue-winged Teal and one Swainson's Thrush who came out after I imitated
his call.,this was the boardwalk coming from the barn going where the Great
horned Owl where.
Something very disturbing was seeing today at the refuge a father with his
son on Bicycle going the whole loop.Reported by many visitor who was all
disturbed reported by 3 parties,but the refuge could not doing nothing about
this problem.Last year as Patrick and I birded a lot in spring migration,we
never saw anything like this happen,but one lady who walks the Refuge
regular telling me that this two been seen there before.
It was nice getting out again,even so it was kind of short,it always making
me feeling better,and if it is only for a short time.


Cheers Ruth Sullivan