Sanford Lagoon

April 26, 2018 Sanford Lagoons, Sanford, ME

I spent about an hour and a half at Sanford Lagoons and had a number of FOY experiences. The highlight of which was a watching a Red Fox which was down wind of me, as it got closer to my position. Finally, after watching it bounce around and explore various smells and sounds I got withing 30 yards of me and stopped and stood and watched me a little bit. Then it turned and bolted for the woods where it quickly disappeared.

For birds I finally saw a couple Ruddy Ducks. I never see too many of them any given year and these two had been around for a little while. I also picked up a FOY Swamp Sparrow. I was attempting to get a picture of this little guy and left my scope on its tripod where I had been scoping ducks. As I turned around to head back to it a gust of wind shifted and knocked it down, breaking the foot. To say the least I was unhappy.

There were tons and tons of Painted Turtles throughout and one dead Common Snapping Turtle. Interestingly I was alerted to the dead Common Snapping Turtle because a small Painted Turtle had been sunning itself on its larger dead cousin.

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