Kimberley Roll is an excellent nature photographer. She has shared her photographs from her October hikes at the Limberlost Wetland Preserve and the Loblolly Marsh Nature Preserve.
Wood ducks in flight.
Turtles catching some sun on a warm October day.
Savannah sparrow
Male bluebird. We will have some bluebirds stay all winter and others will migrate south.
Deer at the Loblolly Marsh Nature Preserve
Lesser yellowlegs migrate through Limberlost in October.
Bald eagle surveying his territory.
Song sparrow
Sandhill cranes
Limberlost Swamp Wetland Preserve: Miller’s Pond on the Jay County side.
Cormorant. They are now summer residents at Limberlost.
Great Blue Heron
Savannah sparrow
White-crowned sparrow
Bald eagle in flight
Northern Leopard frog
Yellow-rumped warbler
Northern Harriers are back for the winter. Randy Lehman and Curt Burnette first spotted them on October 5 at the Limberlost Swamp Wetland Preserve.
Field sparrow
Lincoln’s sparrow
Beaver dam
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Canada Geese. October is a month of migration at Limberlost.
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