Date: 11/12/25 6:41 pm From: <ty.smedes...> Subject: [ia-bird] Not a recent sighting - A morning with a woods full of migrators
I spent a couple hours this morning at Beaver Bottoms Wetland (Dallas County, south of Granger) hoping to photograph a nice buck. He didn't appear but it was fun watching a woods full of migrators around me, consisting mostly of Bluebirds, Yellow-rump Warblers, Rusty Black birds, and a few other species mixed in. Interestingly, they gathered on the ice and along the shore of a bedroom sized pothole, adjacent to my stand. The ice was very thin, and I was surprised to see a few birds begin bathing, as a couple inches of water opened up along the shoreline. And they were mostly surrounded by ice! The distance was too great for photos of the bathing routine, but it was fun to watch anyway! Photos attached.
Ty Smedes
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