I helped my friend Tom Kerr from the Buffalo Audubon with a survey site on private property in West Seneca yesterday. This fantastic piece of land is located on a river, and also includes some swamp areas surrounded by young woods. It is home to the Red-headed Woodpecker (a species of special concern in NY), which eluded us yesterday, and I feel like it would be a perfect place for the Prothonotary Warbler to take up residence with a few nest boxes in the swamp. Despite not finding the mated pair of Red-headed Woodpecker we had hoped to on that particular day. I could't put my camera down. Most birds were a ways out on the swamp, so I could't document everything I wanted to in the few minutes we were there, but you could easily rack up one of the highest species counts in our area at this location alone, mid-summer. Here are just a few pictures of the things we found. I would normally never post animals so far away, but these are just record shots.
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August 2015
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