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. 

Collaborative Poems from Participants in Shari Wagner's 9-25-2019 Workshop for Kids.
"Among Sights, Sounds, and Silences: A Writing Workshop"

LOBLOLLY MARSH INVITATION

See the grass in the distance
moving the way a cat
sashays side to side.

Watch the geese flying over,
an arrow that leads us
into the prairie.

Hear the flock's babble, laughing
at us, and the honking
of its clown horns.

Listen to the crickets' chirp
and chatter, high-pitched
jingle bells in a cicada choir.

Smell the gold in the goldenrod.
Touch its corn-like tassels
complimented in September

by purple asters' royalty. Feel
beebalm between your fingers
like the crinkling of tinfoil.

Come to Loblolly Marsh
like a monarch
riding the waves of the wind.


THE SHAGBARK HICKORY

is a rough man
with a shabby beard
and leathery clothes.

His one good eye
is a swollen knot.

Nuts fall
through the holes
in his pockets.

He waves his hands
to the toad at his feet.


THE BUTTERFLY WING

It was by a lot of asters 
and laying on the path,
orange and black and white.

I walked with it for a minute.
It made me happy 
like a gift. 

By Maggie


The Catydid Choir

Hear the Catydid Choir
chirping, singing, deafening.
Feel the wind blowing
cool and refreshing.
See the goldenrod blooming
bright, tall, and yellow.
Smell the different flowers
perfumy and sweet.
Taste the sweet berries
black and juicy.
Don't ignore it. Explore it!

By Callie Shaffer


HAIKU

Red mosaic leaf
Flitting, bouncing
Monarch butterfly

White, hard aged
Cracked open, honeycombed
Deer Bone

By Simon Brainerd



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