Thanks!

[Michael May]

Earlier this spring, an IOU woman (whose name I don't recall) shared about visiting Kiowa Marsh near Early IA, and what a treasure it was. I was floored, because I drive through/by Early at least once a week and had no clue about it. This morning there was time to make a brief stop, and I will definitely be back to see who is there as the seasons change!

Two lovely surprises:  sandhill cranes calling as I pulled in, tho I never located them. And a flock of little brown peeps with white bellies & medium-ish bills scurrying and probing in the mud flats - peeps are hard for me to ID but with Merlin's help they might be semi-palmated or western sandpipers??

Tons of kildeer and Canadas and Canada babies;

A yellow-headed blackbird male flew in front of me as I pulled in;

lots of rough-wing swallows;

a green heron flyover;

a kingfisher;

2 duckling flotillas, one led by a mom wood duck and one by a pied-bill grebe;

and an eastern towhee on the grassy northside.

Nothing earth-shaking, but things that I see infrequently, and it made my day!

- Kristy, SE Plymouth Co