Fall approaches and Marion County Naturalist Marla Mertz encourages residents to enjoy watching birds in migration.

Mertz says August brought numerous shorebirds, pelicans, and egrets to the Lake Red Rock area and they will increase in numbers through the month of September. The birds of white, pelicans and egrets, have been moving in daily. 

The wood duck migration usually begins in September but she  noticed some movement the latter part of August.