Rick and I wandered up to Turtle Lake to explore the woods and wildlife preserves in the area before checking into our B&B for the night. |
| White Tailed Deer |
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| Chipping Sparrows |
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| some kind of Sulpher |
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| Sandhill Cranes |
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| frog! |
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| White-tailed fawn |
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| Hairy Woodpecker |
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| Homestead Suite - Canyon Road Inn Our B&B for the night! LOVED the tub! It was huge! I never wanted to get out! |
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| We could see the lake from our window and a had our own balcony! |
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| Fireplace - didn't use, too hot out! |
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| Loon outside the B&B |
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| Rick has a hilarious Great Blue Heron who hangs out on the tops of the buildings in the morning. |
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| Here he has bed head |
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| Here he finally got himself sorted out and is ready to do some fishing |
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| Baby Cardinal! Dad was nearby looking bright red and pretty |
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| Chipmunk. He posed so nicely on this fencepost! |
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| A TON of mallards |
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| A Redhead and his lady friend |
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| Turkey Hen on the trail |
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| We think this is a juvenile grosbeak because the bill is so thick |
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| Western Painted Turtle (Rick and I are used to seeing Eastern Painted Turtles - they have yellow necks- so we were thrown when this painted had a red neck) |
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| baby Robin |
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| House Wren |
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| juvenile flycatcher |
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| Yellow Warbler |
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| Great Horned Owl with a Snake!! (I didn't get a picture of him facing us, only of him flying away) |
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| Monarch on milkweed |
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| Barn Swallow at the Visitor Center |
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| Goose Armada |
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| Black Tern (There were SO MANY) |
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| Leopard Frog (Lots of these on the trail) |
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| Cormorants |
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| Muskrat! |
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| Goldfinch |
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| Wood Duck and her ducklings |
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| Brown-headed Cowbirds are nest robbers - they lay their eggs in other birds nests and let those birds raise their young. Because the cowbirds are so much bigger than the birds whose nest they hijack, the cowbird chick starves out the others. |
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| This Yellow Warbler has been duped into raising this cowbird chick |
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| pretty purple flowers |
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| Turtles! |
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| Sandhill Cranes in a bean field |
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| Ash tree |
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| Ash Tree |
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| Little Apple |
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| Our big apple was uprooted thanks to the winds and saturated ground. It didn't used to lay on the ground like this. |
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| Cherry snapped |
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| Second Cherry Snapped |
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| damage to third cherry (oddly enough the two cherries in the middle weren't badly damaged) |
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| Storm damage in Otter Creek off Center Point Road |
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| Storm damage on Center Point Rd |
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| Huge tree uprooted near County Home Rd. |
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| Sign blown over near Midway |
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| REC working on removing trees from the power lines (We were without power from Monday through Wednesday) |
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| Storm tried to take the Nature Trail sign |
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| Building blown down on County Home Rd |
