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| The Newhous Pond in Mentor Marsh after the foliage has started to turn for the season |
We are fortunate to live in this beautiful community.
We are surrounded by scenic city, county, state and even national parks. But how often do we think about or visit them?
Take, for example, the Mentor Marsh. It's nearly 700 acres are unlike any other habitat in the world. It provides a home to more than 200 kinds of bird, including the blue-winged teal, yellow warbler, American wigeon, gadwall, heron, American black duck, red-winged blackbirds, Northern shoveler and hooded merganser.
It combines a mixed oak swamp forest—an increasingly rare kind of habitat—with the largest phragmite marsh in the state. There are also picturesque walking trails that pass through thickets of staghorn sumac, rose hips, wild raspberry and more.
Kids can learn more about the Mentor Marsh when Naturalist Becky Donaldson visits Mentor Library's Mentor-on-the-Lake Branch on 2 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 11. (You can register for the program on our website.) Donaldson will have hands-on items for kids to touch and explore as well as audio sounds of the marsh wildlife.
She'll also be talking about how the Marsh prepares for the winter.
Donaldson works for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, who manages the park along with the state of Ohio. Her talk is free and open to everybody.
For more online information about Mentor Marsh, you can visit:
- the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
- the Marsh's Facebook page (with several gorgeous photos, including the one above)
- the Ohio Department of Natural Resources
- Hiking Ohio Parks.
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