After attending another of the many fine evening programs at Ottawa NWR offered during the 
Biggest Week in American Birding (Ken Behrens program "Seawatching: Cutting Edge 
Birding" repeats later this week: check the schedule on the BWIAM website), I headed to 
Metzger Marsh. At trailhead for the wooded marsh walk,  at the first small pulloff on the right 
paralleling the initial section of canal past the CCYC building, I could hear an American 
Bittern calling. While walking a short section of the trail into the marsh, I had a flyover Sandhill 
Crane. This is the location where the "tame" Wild Turkey was seen over the last several days 
(but I did not observe the turkey today). This pulloff is  'before' the final big turn, so if you are 
heading directly toward the beach you have missed the trailhead.

FYI: There are several late morning, late afternoon, and early evening programs highlighted 
on the BWIAB website.

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