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We drove past Cap Sauers Holding Nature Preserve on the way home, just to check it out. We didn't expect to see anything, but we spotted two large white birds in the water from the road. Trumpeter swans! We were so excited but then! We noticed there was an osprey pole in the distance with a nest!! And then a osprey flew in with bedding!!! Ima speculated that the it was an osprey male practicing their nest building skills, since it's too late in the season to be starting a nest for eggs.
--written by Ima and her family
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| Osprey building a nest! |
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| Trumpeter Swans are our biggest native waterfowl, and are therefore giant. They get to 25 pounds! |
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| Trumpeter Swans were once endangered, but their populations have bounced back. |
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| Trumpeter Swans require a 300-foot runway to take off, which is close to the length of the main runway for planes at a airport in Ohio! |
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| Trumpeter Swans nest on the dens and dams of muskrats and beavers. |
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| Cedar Waxwing |
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| Cedar Waxwing |
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