People come into the visitor center at the refuge and describe birds they have seen and ask us if we can identify them. We have ten different bird books and other reference guides we can use to figure out what they have seen. You can tell the serious birders -- they come in with their binoculars, cameras and knapsack filled with bird books. They also come in with bird songs on their Ipods so they can identify birds just by sound. Some will play the bird song loud as they walk to try and entice the bird out of hiding.
I got a picture of the Long Billed Curlew out on a small par 3 golf course. Not sure what is in the ground under this grass that attracts them. The other bird is a Pied Bill Grebe. It has a stubby beak with a black bar across the middle of the beak. There are many kinds of Grebes down here now and some are even nesting. We've seen a few baby ducks!
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