At last! The ban has been revised for GLSM! Now you can boat!!
 
SO, we took our boat out for a "float". Actually, JB wanted to test-drive the down-riggers, big dipsies, etc for our salmon fish trip to Lake MI next week when our son brings HIS son and a friend to catch the BIG fish!!
 
Of course, I birded while on the water!! Saw the following:
 
Bald Eagles - White heads!! Probably, the Prairie Creek pair!
Osprey: Saw at least FOUR!! One only 50' from the BE!! Having a fish supper, but didn't get to finish it, it slipped out of his talon grasp!!
CAGO: Many Canada's enjoying the sun and water.
Mallards: Only a few Mallards ON the water. There were MANY at the Wildlife Area and Fish Hatchery.
Shorebirds: There have been several - NO MANY - Killdeer, a couple of semi-palmated plovers; YellowLegs, Semi-palmated sandpipers - and others - 
 
Anderson's - there were about 15 turtles basking on fallen tree limbs
 
I know this isn't the "exciting" report we hear from the central flyway BUT for out little bit of Heaven -- It IS FANTASTIC!!
 
Thanks for reading,
 
Jill
GRAND LAKE ST MARYS -- coming back!!!!!
Auglaize County
                                          
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