This place has been on my bucket list for years. This year I moved it up to one of the top priorities. It is supposed to be the perfect opportunity to see all the winter migrants that visit the area. I could not make it for the special festival they have for a weekend in mid January but, thought there would still be large numbers of birds around the 1st week in February. I arrived early in the morning and went right to the Wildlife viewing area. There is a very nice new viewing area that looks out across the fields but, it so far away from any of the fields and any water that there are no birds visible. They have free spotting scopes but, again everything is so far away you can not see anything even using the scopes. I did spot a small amount of water out about 150 yards and I could see a few ducks with my special zoom lens camera. There were also a few large groups of Snow Geese that flew over while I was there. I was very disappointed. I would suggest you skip this place on go down the road to Whitewater draw near McNeal. I was there last week and saw thousands of Cranes. There is a pathway there and you can get fairly close to the birds for photographs. read more