A small but enthusiastic group met at the DEC Field Office in Savannah for a birding and wildlife walk with Trail Works, DEC, and SOAR (Clyde/Savannah/Galen). DEC wildlife naturalist Frank Morlock led the group along two of Northern Montezuma Wildlife Management Area’s restored emergent marshes and the Seneca River floodplain.

The loop trail took the group along the Seneca and Savannah marshes where evidence of beaver and muskrat activity was present. A wide variety of birds were observed or heard, including a bald eagle, great blue heron, Sandhill crane, trumpeter swan, osprey, yellow-throated vireo, double-crested cormorant, great-crested flycatcher and yellow warbler. The trails at this DEC location are open to the public.