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Kings Landing Nature features beautiful nature and an abundance of birds and land animals.
11/06/2025

Kings Landing Nature features beautiful nature and an abundance of birds and land animals.

Tom and I have now donated our 32 acres to Chikaming Open Lands. Chikaming Open Lands mainly works with southern Berrie...
07/06/2025

Tom and I have now donated our 32 acres to Chikaming Open Lands. Chikaming Open Lands mainly works with southern Berrien County, so they are excited to work with us in northern Berrien County, and along the historic St. Joseph River. The land will be preserved forever.

The geese have a procedure they go through. 1. When the pond begins to thaw a half dozen geese land on the ice but s...
03/12/2021

The geese have a procedure they go through.
1. When the pond begins to thaw a half dozen geese land on the ice but sometimes slide off into the water. Too funny!
2 They have to fight over rights to the nesting site. Sometimes it's brutal.
3. The winning pair then mate. They swim around squawking at each other, ducking their heads up and down in the water and finally going under water.
4. After a week or so, Mable 2 build her nest with leaves, lays her eggs, and for about 4 weeks sits on them regardless if it rains or snows. Meanwhile Elmer2 patiently stands guard on the side of the pond. He's most wary of other geese and will squawk at them then attack if necessary. He's knows the tractor mowing isn't a threat, so just swims in the pond. About 5 pm it's time for a break, Mable covers up her nest and they both fly off for a half hour.
As of today they have fought for the nesting spot and done their mating ritual, just waiting for Mabel to lay eggs. To be continued. Enjoy the beautiful day.

Here's a picture I took this morning from a window in our house. It shows 2 Canadian geese and 2 ducks either wood duck...
03/12/2021

Here's a picture I took this morning from a window in our house. It shows 2 Canadian geese and 2 ducks either wood ducks or mallards. One pair nest on ducks nest on the back of our island where we can't watch them.
The pair of geese mate for life and always return to the same visible spot on the island. When we dug out the back pond about 20 years ago our first pair of geese we named Elmer and Mable. Elmer had a band on one leg so was probably from nearby Lake Michigan College where they were banding geese. We saw Elmer with his band about 4 years, then a new pair would move into the same location.

Much of the nature I show you is close to the Royalton Twp. Nature Park, mostly seen from our house or nearby. For inst...
03/12/2021

Much of the nature I show you is close to the Royalton Twp. Nature Park, mostly seen from our house or nearby. For instance a few mornings ago we saw 3 turkeys walking down the park trail, then shortly after we saw 5 deer running the opposite direction. Many critters aren't seen with people around. Here's deer at dusk that came out from the woods next to the park entrance.

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