I went to Chesney this morning hoping for some grassland shore birds, but only found Solitary Sandpiper and Killdeer, there were Dickcissels, Indigo Buntings, and American Goldfiches intermingling, and Wood Pewee”s dining from the trees, a bush held a Least Flycatcher, Merlin confirmed its call, But also reported Yellow-bellied. It was wetter than I expected especially on the south side of the row of trees running east/west. I ended up wading in water deeper than my boot tops. There are lots of meadow beauties, swollen sunflowers, and late purple asters., and accompanying butterflies.
The most interesting thing was a small crayfish! Ij would guess about 1.5 inches long,
waving cobalt blue claws at me as I approached it. It was standing in very shallow water/ on very wet ground. I did not expect a crayfish to have any bright colors.
