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

March 20, 2010: Birding Montezuma NWR, Savannah Mucklands, and Chimney Bluffs on Lake Ontario

Today we started out in the Montezuma NWR and Savannah Mucklands area, and then headed north to Chimney Bluffs on Lake Ontario near Sodus.

 Montezuma:

Various ducks at Montezuma

American Wigeons

Red-Winged Blackbird

Savannah Mucklands:

Northern Harrier

Northern Shovelers

Mass of different ducks at the Mucklands (above and below)

Ruddy Ducks

Sandhill Cranes

Chimney Bluffs:

October 10, 2009: Apple Picking and Touring Ithaca and Central NY

Today we started visiting the apple farm Little Orchards in Newfield, NY, just south of Ithaca

Lilies in the water

Yellow flowers

Some photos from the apple picking, and of fall colors

Now, some photos from Taughannock Falls State Park (Upper Falls)

This Turkey Vulture flew by

Now the Montezuma NWR area:

(The "Main Pool")

Pectoral Sandpiper

Greater Yellowlegs

Northern Shoveler

From the Savannah Mucklands:

Greater Black Backed Gull

Snow Geese flying

Bald Eagle

Sandhill Crane

Horned Lark

Swamp Sparrow

Song Sparrow