Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

Events at Monteuma

Photographic Adventures with the Black Tern - A Presentation by Marie Read

Saturday, June 20, 2 pm. Montezuma NWR Visitor Center.
Wildlife photographer and nature writer Marie Read is renowned for her exquisite bird photos that often tell a story as well as being beautiful. Marie's articles and photo essays have appeared in such publications as Living Bird, Birder's World, Bird Watcher's Digest, and Women In The Outdoors. She is the author of Secret Lives of Common Birds: Enjoying Bird Behavior Through the Seasons (Houghton Mifflin, 2005).
For the past two summers, Marie Read has photographed Black Terns in the secluded marshes of Upstate New York. In this presentation Marie will share the techniques she used to photograph them in action. Plus you'll learn about the lives of these beautiful terns, listed as endangered in New York, as well as some of the other creatures that share their wetland home. Free to Friends members and $5 for non-members.

6th Annual Wildflowers and Wine Festival

Sunday, June 21
We will be hosting a variety of activities at the Montezuma Winery, with some guided activities on the Refuge, throughout the day to highlight our work, mission and appreciation of the natural world. Activities will include Refuge walking tours; family-fun activities; a barbeque; live animals; live music; vendors; wine tasting; and, of course, displays presented by the Complex and its partners. As in the past, the Montezuma Winery will create a specialty wine for the event—a percentage of the proceeds will go directly to the Friends of the Montezuma Wetlands Complex, tagged for habitat restoration projects on the Refuge and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation lands. This year’s bird of focus is the osprey.

For more information about any of these programs, call Andrea at 315/568-5987 or email Andrea_VanBeusichem@fws.gov.