Lake Wallace during the last week

Virginia Rail young, Lake Wallace, Belchertown, MA, Jun 22, 2022

Green Heron, Lake Wallace, Belchertown, MA, Jun 22, 2022

Great Blue Herons at nest (three young in nest), Lake Wallace, Belchertown, MA, Jun 24, 2022

Great Blue Herons at nest (two young in nest), Lake Wallace, Belchertown, MA, Jun 26, 2022

Green Herons, Lake Wallace, Belchertown, MA, Jun 26, 2022

Green Heron, Lake Wallace, Belchertown, MA, Jun 26, 2022

Great Horned Owl juvenile, Lake Wallace, Belchertown, MA, Jun 26, 2022

Great Blue Herons at nest (two young in nest), Lake Wallace, Belchertown, MA, Jun 28, 2022

 Green Heron, Lake Wallace, Belchertown, MA, Jun 28, 2022

Green Heron, Lake Wallace, Belchertown, MA, Jun 29, 2022

Green Heron, Lake Wallace, Belchertown, MA, Jun 29, 2022

Virginia Rail juveniles, Lake Wallace, Belchertown, MA, Jun 29, 2022

Virginia Rail juvenile, Lake Wallace, Belchertown, MA, Jun 29, 2022

Over the past week or so I have made daily stops at Lake Wallace (mainly early in the morning but occasionally a little later).  Each morning has produced good stuff including multiple species of waterfowl with young, Virginia Rails, Sora, a successful Great Blue Heron nest, increasing numbers of Green Herons and others, totally a bit less than 70 species.  It is really interesting to see the changes from day to day with species make up.  I have gotten a variety of videos and I have attached links below:

Great Blue Herons at nest:  video #1, video #2, video #3, video #4

Great Horned Owl juvenile: video #1, video #2

Virginia Rail juvenile: video #1

Green Heron eating tadpole: video #1, video #2

There have also been a number of mammals around with a very active River Otter family upsetting lots of species of birds (video of the otters at the following links: video #1, video #2 and video #3).