August 12, 2012: 1,000 Islands - Clayton NY - Home

This morning I was still at our island, then a drive home, with a few stops on the way 

 We saw this waxy plant a lot this year

 Above and below - our new boat!

Passing the Federal Rideau on the way to shore

 The St. Lawrence River

 Red Admiral (above and below)

 On NY Route 12

 Black Bellied Whistling Duck (Clayton)

Signs on the way home

Towpath Road at Montezuma NWR

 Pectoral Sandpiper?

 Semipalmated Plover

Greater Yellowlegs

May 28, 2012: Leaving the 1,000 Islands, and the Montezuma NWR Area

A few nice birds in the Montezuma NWR area on the way home from the islands today!

Above and Below: Lifer Hudsonian Godwit! (Benning Marsh)

Black Bellied Plovers (Puddlers Marsh)

Dunlins (Wildlife Drive)

Semipalmated Plover (Wildlife Drive)

Northern Shovelers (Puddlers Marsh)

Prothonotary Warbler (Armitage Road)

Song Sparrow (Carncross Road)

October 9, 2011: Seneca Falls and Montezuma NWR Area

 White Asters in Seneca Falls

Red Phalarope in Montezuma NWR Main Pool

September 18, 2011: Birding Montezuma NWR

 Great Egret

Greater Yellowlegs

July 5, 2011: 1000 Islands and Montezuma NWR

One final picture from the island today, of the Wolf Spider

Now some photos from Montezuma NWR:

Above and Below:  Purple Martins

Female Wood Duck

I think this is Golden Alexander

March 20, 2011: Montezuma NWR and Savannah Mucklands

First the NYS DEC Howland Island WMA in the Montezuma Complex

Wood Duck

Birds at the Savannah Mucklands 

 Ring Necked Duck

Redhead 

 Horned Lark

 Northern Shoveler

 Snow Goose Flock

Trumpeter Swan

March 18, 2011: Montezuma NWR and Savannah Mucklands

Montezuma NWR Main Pool

Greater Yellowlegs

 Northern Pintail

Savannah Mucklands

 Above and Below:  Tundra Swans

 American Wigeon

 Potato Building at the mucklands

 Above and Below: Snow Geese

Back to Montezuma NWR (Mays Point)

 Bufflehead

Rusty Blackbird

June 5, 2010: Birding Montezuma, NWR

Our first birding trip in awhile!  Went to Montezuma for the Hudsonian Godwits.  Missed them but got a few photos in the process....

Below- Three shots of Bald Eagles near the Visitor Center

Purple Martin