Handpainted wooden ornament with gold string. Size:4.75"x4.25"

The blue heron is the sentinal of the shoreline. On summer evenings they may fly ten miles or more from their rookery to fill up on fish for the babies back home.

Handpainted wooden ornament with gold string. Size:5.5"x2.25"

The hooded merganser with his prominant headgear isn't as numerous locally as the other mergansers. You can look for them with other "winter ducks" like scaup and goldeneye on ice free bays like Sodus or Fair Haven after October, when they leave the marshes where they have nested and raised their young.

Handpainted wooden ornament with gold string. Size:5.5"x2.25"

The hooded merganser with his prominant headgear isn't as numerous locally as the other mergansers. You can look for them with other "winter ducks" like scaup and goldeneye on ice free bays like Sodus or Fair Haven after October, when they leave the marshes where they have nested and raised their young.