April 1, 2014

Spent the late morning and early afternoon at Crosswinds Marsh in Sumpter Township.

I spotted six or eight scooting about over open water amid the melting ice sheets, and another six on the water.

The six on the water looked like three mating couples.

Later, made my way toward the north end of open water and spotted a bald eagle moving behind the branches which normally screen it from view when the foliage arrives later in the spring.  It was on the nest surrounded by the waterway and marshland at the north end of the park.

Also found gulls and what is now the permanent Canada Geese flock.

The mute swan pests were gone.