I had a wonderful time identifying ducks at Cardinal Marsh today with a class of environmental studies students from Luther College. We saw 15 different waterfowl species, plus numerous sandhill cranes, bald eagles and even an early-arriving great blue heron. Blue-winged teal are back now too, and are a common nesting bird at the marsh. By the way, I will be spending a long holiday weekend with family, so have a happy Easter and I'll be back in touch next Monday night.
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American coots came back to Cardinal Marsh today too! These comical characters also stay and nest here on the marsh in stands of flooded cattails.
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I hope that everyone can see the photo.
I first want to wish everyone a Happy Easter. Not certain that I will be around over the next few days and making comments. Happy Easter wishes coming your way in this sunrise on Armand Bayou.
The second thing is that I am not certain that my contacts are seeing my photos. The last photo that I posted received a few comments, but they stopped roughly 9 hours ago and so I have contacted the Flickr team once again and left them the message below. Not certain that I will be commenting as tomorrow is a busy day and Good Friday has some commitments as well. Happy Easter to everyone and I hope your weekend is filled with many blessings. Peace.
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At least it’s not another alligator. This is a midday capture of my dock worker buddy at the put in point. He/she keeps an eye on all the happenings at the floating dock at Bay Area Park and is very approachable. Just a capture of a Snowy full frame with no crop.
No alligators were harmed in the making of this photo…LOL!!
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