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["michael sylva" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday evening, 7/19, while guiding a canoe float, I spotted a (1) LITTLE 
BLUE HERON and (1) YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON.  I also saw (26) BLACK-CROWNED 
NIGHT-HERONS, (31) GREEN HERONS, 80+  great egrets, 20 + great blues, 30+ 
double-crested cormorants, (3) OSPREYS and numerous Eastern kingbirds, 
prothonotary warblers, cliff and barn swallows, Canada geese, mallards and wood 
ducks.  We came upon a dozen or so woody hens with ducklings; some would 
scatter into cover, some would flap into open water and submerge.   
We explored a wide shallow pool across the river from the WMA, where mudflats 
have become exposed (the lake is about 18" below 2002 maximum).   A dozen 
killdeer  had gathered there, along with 40+ great egrets, some mallards, 
Canadas, and BCN herons.  This area can is a mile downstream from Rankin 
Bridge. It's an 80-acre field, between the road and the riverbank, that's up 
for sale.  It should be inviting habitat for early migratory shorebirds.
  
Michael Sylva
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