Thursday, March 07, 2024

Great weather if you're a duck

After two days of t-shirt weather, we bundled up yesterday to stand in persistent drizzle and cold wind at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, where my adorable daughter and I observed great blue herons building nests and courting, and then we took a quick jaunt alongside an old canal to see a beaver pond where ducks and geese dabbled contentedly. Poor lighting means bad pictures, but it was worth seeing the birds at work, unbothered by the weather.


How does he carry a stick that big?

Every black blob is a nest at the heron rookery.






I love the elegant pattern on the female mallard's back


Wood duck!

Evidence of beaver activity

 

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