~ a whole family of beavers
~ a whole family of great horned owls
~ three whole mallard families
~ a whole canada goose super-creche
~ six white-tailed deer
~ a hungry hungry cooper's hawk
~ three baby yellow-bellied sapsuckers in a maple tree nest hole
~ five snapping turtles
~ twelve midland painted turtles
~ sixty-seven monarch butterflies
~ one noisey noisey house wren
~ one hovering kestrel
~ one motionless motionless great blue heron
~ five mysterious black-crowned night herons
~ three sleepy sleepy raccoons
~ four red-backed salamanders
~ six brown snakes
~ two eastern garter snakes
~ fourteen american robins
~ eight wood frogs
~ three leapard frogs
~ five american toads
~ two cottontail rabbits
~ three high high graceful turkey vultures
~ lots and lots of high high circling ring-billed gulls
~ lots and lots of noisey noisey nesting red-winged black birds
~ lots and lots of gracky-gracky nesting grackles
~ bumble bees ~ carpenter bees ~ leaf cutter bees ...
bees and bees and wanna-bees ...
~ zillions and zillions of all kinds of arthropods and invertebrates -
including a shiny shiny wee little tiny red & black dwarf spider ....
~ trees and flowers and grass and vines

and more kinds of plants and fungi

than anyone can ever even imagine

......

 these are just a few

of the amazing wonderful nature things

we all were able to visit

this beautiful beautiful

sunny sunny

wonderful wonderful day today

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