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A Lake Reborn… sort of

10,000 Birds

And yet, less than halfway through our 2020-2021 winter dry season, Lake Cuitzeo had essentially dried up. They’re riding horses on my lake. While numbers were low, our first migratory Baird’s Sandpipers and Wilson’s Phalaropes had arrived from their breeding grounds up north, right on time.

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Fish Creek to Buffalo

10,000 Birds

There had been quite a few Cattle Egrets in the area until recently and so it was good to see them for the first time in 2020. They had good breeding plumage, although that is not clearly apparent when the photo was taken from so far away! Two Cattle Egrets with four cows!

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