Saturday we stopped at Montezuma Wildlife Refuge to drive the auto loop. For some reason I thought the drive wasn’t open until April 1st, but that is just the visitor’s center. The auto loop was actually quite a busy place that day, but nowhere as busy as the waters were. Trying to keep count was a little overwhelming.
My list included Canada geese, snow geese, ring-billed gulls, herring gulls, tundra swans, northern shovelers, mallards, lesser scaups, canvasbacks, redheads, ring-necked ducks, crows, starlings, and red-winged blackbirds. With such a great number on the water, and all their comings and goings, I’m sure I missed several others.
