Spring Is Around the Corner
It’s just one more month of shortening hours of dark skies, and the sun is reborn to take back its light, after the December solstice, with spring, just around the corner. It will be good to go to Celery Pond again this spring and do a thorough inventory of the bird population, when the activity is in high speed.
Red-winged blackbirds love to nest in the cattails. You can hear them with thei konk-ker-ee song. The flash of red is always startling, especially as they take flight, from out of the cattails.
Waterfowl depend on marshes. Black ducks, mallards, green-winged teal and other types of ducks relay on marshes. They not only use the marsh for breeding purposes, but stay on to raise their young. Especially dear is seeing about 6 or more baby ducklings trailing behind ma-ma duck on the Black River.
Ducks, geese, herons, egrets, cranes and others rest and feed in marshes, making these as destination points on their amazing journeys from one end of the continent to the other. Preservation and restoration of a patch of marshland is the opportunity that the Celery Pond Advocates hope to accomplish in setting up their nonprofit organization for acquiring, managing and protecting the wetland of Celery Pond, hoping to make it into a nature sanctuary with an educational tie-in.
If you are interested in contributing to our organization, please send contributions to CPA at P.O. Box 693 in South Haven, MI 49090. You can also contribute by attending our first fundraising event this Saturday. Tickets are $30 each and can be purchased at Wolverine Hardware and Whimsy. Don’t forgot to get your tickets the next time you’re downtown.
