The swamp. It's a thing of beauty. It's also a creepy, slimy place. It's swimming with life. We find huge, dinner plate size snapper turtles, rope size garter snakes and black snakes as big around as a garden hose. It's said there are massasauga rattlers around here, but we've never encountered one. There are wood ducks, painted turtles, tree frogs, bull frogs, spring peepers, baltimore orioles and redwing blackbirds. We see salamanders, muskrats, woodchucks, turkeys and skunks. In April there was a pair of Canada Geese hanging around. We would see them in the back hayfield, then on the driveway, then in the swamp. Thought for sure they were going to nest, but they seemed to have moved on.
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