We went to Montezuma Wildlife Refuge on Saturday. We got a pretty good list of birds, mostly water fowl: great blue heron, starling, king fisher, canada geese, killdeer, norther shoveler, green winged teal, pied bill greebe, gadwall, mallard, crow, american coot, widgeon, ring necked duck, ruddy duck, wood duck, black duck, snow geese, osprey, house sparrow.
Part of Montezuma is a drive through area where you are only allowed to get out of the car at designated observation areas, you can stop all you want everywhere else, you just have to stay in the car. This is to protect the wildlife habitat as much as possible. While we were sitting in the car trying to identify one of the ducks I kept hearing this weird chatter/squeaking noise. I finally asked Andrew; "What is making that NOISE?" He leaned out the car window further, looked up and shouted "EAGLES, BALD EAGLES"! There were two of them soaring back and forth over our car, screeching, and they were only 20-30 feet up. I grabbed my camera and jumped out of the car (screw the rules for BALD EAGLES). But they decided we were no longer any fun, and proceeded to dive bomb the ducks and geese, causing them to all take off, quacking in apparent terror.
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