Today we visited Sandy Ridge Reservation in North Ridgeville, Ohio. It was one of our best birding days yet!
The welcoming committee
A Canada geese family with a couple of babies
A huge group of great egrets
A great blue heron
A great egret
Our first sighting of an Eastern Kingbird
A great egret fishing for lunch
Caught one!
Lots of tree swallows around
Our first sighting of a blue-winged teal!
A pair of egrets
Plenty of painted turtles enjoying the sunny day
A northern flicker
A mother wood duck with her babies close by
A bald eagle!
A few baby mallards with their mother
More Canada geese babies
A song sparrow
A great blue heron
We didn't realize it at the time, but here is our first confirmed osprey sighting!
The osprey in flight
Our first sighting of a yellow warbler
There is a bald eagle's nest in the reservation. You can see one of the immature eagles stretching. There's also a live webcam feed you can watch all day!
Love all these pictures!! Osprey!! Eagle!! WOW - can't wait to go there with you!
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