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How wonderful it is to finally have everything green and growing. There is water in the wetland and even a couple of carp flopping about. We have enjoyed seeing new Canada goslings and today a beautiful 3 foot grey crane came to visit.
This last weekend we teamed up with WOW (Wild Over Wood ducks). They are a relatively new organization dedicated to bringing back the Wood duck to Utah in greater numbers. This duck normally nests in hollow trees but is therefore accessible to predators. Joel Draxler and his volunteers brought out a “Predator proof” nesting box and set it up in the wetland, and one across the creek on Sue Zollinger’s bank. If not this year, we are excited to see if next year we can have some eggs. WOW is co-operating with the DWR and USU to observe and study the effect of the new boxes. We wish them success!
