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Spring is in the air! The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, the bees are buzzing. The Hummingbirds are coming back! Every spring, we see these tiny birds zooming around our yards, collecting nectar and pollinating the flowers. But why are Hummingbirds important to our ecosystem? In this blog, we will talk about Hummingbirds and how they uphold the ecosystem.
The next day, still riding the high of our incredible owl sightings, I couldn’t stop thinking about one feathered friend—the elusive Snowy Owl. We had already seen three of the four legendary owls of the bog: the Great Gray Owl, the Northern Hawk-Owl, and the tiny but unforgettable Boreal Owl. Only one remained.
Determined, I asked my mom if I could borrow her phone and look into eBird, scanning recent sightings with hopeful anticipation. I held my breath as I clicked through the reports—and then, there it was. A Snowy Owl had been spotted… not in the bog, but two hours away, across Lake Superior, in Wisconsin. Two hours was a long drive and it had been spotted weeks ago. It was quite the dilemma - two hours drive and coming in empty handed. Do we try it?
Sometimes, it’s the tiniest creatures that make the biggest difference. We often think power comes from size or strength, but in nature, that's not always true. One of the smallest insects on Earth—one we usually ignore or even fear—is actually keeping our entire world alive. I’m talking about bees, the ones who uphold our ecosystem.