Adventures in Birding

#60-61, Middle Creek

Yesterday poisonivy and I went to Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Stevens, PA (near Lebanon, PA, and about an hour East of Harrisburg). They get huge numbers of Snow Geese around this time of year (like, 100,000 of them!) that stop at the lake during their migration!

I took some photos   of #60, Snow Geese, as well as Tundra Swans and Canada Geese. It was really, really cool! We went last year, but I didn't submit a checklist to ebird while we were there, so I'm counting it as a "new" hotspot. Plus, this year we got to go to the Visitor Center which was recently remodeled. It was really cool! Lots of informative stuff! They even had a large window with binocular stations to view the lake!

While outside the Visitor Center, we also heard #61, Field Sparrow.

I got new hiking boots yesterday and I'm really tempted to go for a hike today. It's raining right now, but I think it should stop by Noon or so, so I might go out later. I'm on a mission to find waterfowl in my county!