An Early Spring Hike

 Hullo... today I am out on an adventure at Somenos Marsh.

It is beary bird friendly here.

Let's see what we can find...

They have signs about invasive plants... like Himalayan blackberries... so yummy but so bad for native plants.

I wonder what it looks like in the summer... when all this grass is green.

It's pretty though.

Lots of bird houses...

And birds swooping around but we couldn't get any pics...

Beary nice boardwalks otherwise I'd be getting a soaker!

We didn't see any bald eagles today but they are around...

Oooh... do you see that...

The pussy willows are out...

Apparently there's a little creek that flows through this marsh and... there are salmon and trout in it!

It's over there...

Hmmm... OK... if you say so... this would be hard to find when everything is green and bushy!

See... marshy!!!

Oh, yeah, the invasive yellow iris... we have them in a marsh at home too. Beary bad...

They crowd out native plants... might look pretty but pretty is no excuse for invasion... just saying. Hmph.

I like these boardwalks...

Ooooh look... there are apparently beaver lodges here too!!! That's the beauty of a marsh... so many different life forms here.

Errr... maybe that's a beaver lodge?? Don't know...

Beary nice...

Such a nice day...