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Migrating visitors at Upper and Lower Lakes.

Posted by Troy Parla,
North Country explorer from
October 20, 2024

We stopped off at Lower Lake, which was drained this year by the DEC to do some work.

While there were commonly seen birds like ring billed gulls, trumpeter swans, ducks, geese, blackbirds and kingfisher.

It was a nice surprise to see some Semipalmated Pipers and a Lesser Yellowlegs on their way from Northern Canada down to the Gulf, or farther.