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The two lovely Swans we have on our lake. They are called by different names by different people. You can come up with your
own names. It's a lot of fun watching them chase the geese out of their territory.
The Beavers busy at work damming up the canal. They have a very large hut on the canal. It stands about 10 feet tall.
Here is an Osprey (in the Eagle Family) after catching a Fish. It made its home in a tree on the Island.
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Bowfin
Bowfin are normally ravenous eaters but they can go without eating longer than any other fish for nearly a year if necessary
because of their low metabolisms.
There is only one living species of bowfin, which is also called the dogfish, mudfish, or grindle. This uniquely American
freshwater fish is found in the Mississippi River basin, the Great Lakes, and other small bodies of water east of the Great
Lakes. It is a fierce fighter with sharp teeth that is known to eat fish of all kinds as well as frogs, snakes, turtles, and
even small mammals. It also sometimes cannibalizes other bowfin. Bowfin do not make good eating but are considered good game
fish.
Bowfin can use their swim bladders, which most other fish use as a kind of flotation device, as a lung, allowing them
to survive out of water for up to a day. In oxygen-poor water, bowfin will often gulp surface air in order to breathe. Paleontologists
have discovered fossilized bowfin from North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, the earliest of which dates
to the Jurassic Era, which began 213 million years ago.
The main predator of bowfin are bigger bowfin.
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