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Scott Carpenter

@toledooutdoors.bsky.social
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Sharing photos and information about natural resources in northwest Ohio. Director of public relations at Metroparks Toledo, outdoors writer/photographer. Views expressed by me on social media are my own and not those of Metroparks.

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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 5h
Secor Metropark is a great destination for a drive-through fall color fix. And it's only going to get better in the next week.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Fall color along the Towpath at Providence Metropark makes the riverside park near Grand Rapids a must see in autumn. Ghosts of Providence, this Friday and Saturday, is a great excuse to visit. See MetroparksToledo.com for details and registration.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This northern cardinal was hopping on the rocks on the dike at Metzger Marsh last night. Our state bird is a permanent resident that does not migrate in winter.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Eastern fox squirrels are extra busy right now scatter hoarding food for winter. These two are probably a mother and her young, born in the spring.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
An angler casts while balancing on a log on the Maumee River just below the Providence Dam Friday evening. - Providence Metropark
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Golden hour glow at one of my favorite spots last night. - Farnsworth Metropark, Waterville, OH
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So far the sassafras trees are providing most of the fall color. This was Friday at "The Spot" and Mallard Lake at Oak Openings.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Perfect weather, plenty of pumpkins and, of course, witches on stand up paddleboards made the first Glass City Fall Fest a huge success yesterday at International Cove.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A few iconic scenes from Pictured Rocks: stunning, 200-foot sheer Cambrian sandstone cliffs, the lone pine on Chapel Rock, the Grand Island East Channel Lighthouse and Spray Falls. #picturedrockscruises
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Amazon delivery, island style. - Mackinac Island, MI
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sunrise at Mission Point and a few other scenes from a one-night stay on beautiful Mackinac Island last week.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We had a perfect evening for a sunset cruise Wednesday at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore with Cpt. Dave Sliter. @picturedrockscruises
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our 40th wedding anniversary road trip started last Monday and took us from Up North to Way Up North. Five days, one lens: a 24-70. You can guess what photos I'll be sharing this week.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's a start. - Middlegrounds Metropark #fallcolor2026
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The big birds are showy, but the sounds of shorebirds are the music of the marsh. The killdeer is one of the players. These birds are migrating south for winter and will be one of the earliest birds to return in the spring.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I was framing this photo of wild turkey this morning at Blue Creek Metropark when one of the birds struck a pose just as I pressed the shutter button. He was right, this is a better shot.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The double-crested cormorant is a conservation success story or a nuisance, depending on your point of view. This bird was drying its wings along Ward’s Canal last week. - Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A great blue heron takes flight over the water at Howard Marsh Metropark Thursday morning.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Cattle egrets are uncommon in Ohio so it's always a nice surprise to see one. Yesterday there were five of them together at Howard Marsh. I also saw one down the road at Howard phase 2.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's a good time to see butterflies, especially monarchs, which are beginning their fall migration to Mexico. Monarch and pearl crescent at Middlegrounds yesterday; sulphur at Ottawa NWR a couple weeks ago.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If it walks like a duck, and floats like a duck...it might not be a duck. A pied-bill grebe at Howard Marsh Sunday morning. They don't quack like a duck. They sound more like a squeak toy.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day. Bald eagle at Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge yesterday morning.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Bird brain" should be a compliment. Shorter days, cooler temps and fewer bugs and berries are cues to birds that the season is changing. Now that they don't have nests to defend, they are gathering in flocks for safety as they start their long migration to winter homes.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At Toledo's new Pontiac Preserve on Summit Street you can see watercraft, big and small, on the Maumee River. A woman on a Jet Ski speeds past a ship docked at Midwest Terminals.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
These fishermen filled a cooler with catfish on a recent hot day at Middlegrounds Metropark. The park opened 10 years ago this month beside the Maumee River, turning a literal dump into a downtown oasis.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Caspian terns, the largest of the more than 40 tern species in the world, are a familiar sight near large bodies of water in Ohio. They are now migrating south for winter. - Howard Marsh Metropark
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A trumpeter swan along the wildlife drive last Sunday morning. I can get pretty close to these big birds, but not usually this close. A car can make a good wildlife blind. - Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wiregrass Lake Metropark on Eber Rd near Frankfort Rd is a quiet escape to fish, paddle, enjoy birds and dragonflies or to walk the half-mile trail around the water.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
An Eastern kingbird stalks the marsh for insects Sunday morning at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Summer scene. White-tailed deer in a field at Howard Marsh yesterday afternoon.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If school busses weren't enough of a clue, the silky nests of the fall webworm moth popping up on the tips of tree limbs is a sure sign that the season is changing.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Fields of flowers at the Blue Creek Nursery in Whitehouse, a Metroparks facility where native plants are "farmed" for seed used to restore natural landscapes. - Blue Creek Metropark
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Meet JR the Eastern box turtle and learn how radio telemetry is used to track wildlife during STEAM Day this Saturday from noon to 4 at Swan Creek Preserve. Science and nature activities for all ages. See Metroparks Meetup on 13 Action News. www.13abc.com/2026/08/19/n...
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
See you in the spring. Barn swallows have been gathering in flocks and making their way south on their fall migration. - Manhattan Marsh Preserve Metropark
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Happy Monday.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
These trumpeter swans at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge appeared to be having a discussion.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A painted turtle basks in the sun at Manhattan Marsh Preserve Metropark in North Toledo.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Two species that are very common in our region right now, though rarely seen together: a great blue heron and a great orange looper cone.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A bald eagle perches near its nest at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge last Sunday evening.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Participants in last night's Paddle and Groove had a beautiful evening to listen to Djangophonique performing from a pontoon boat. The fundraiser for the Black Swamp Conservancy launched at Middlegrounds Metropark.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Monarch on milkweed. Last week at Farnsworth Metropark.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It's a great time to see great egrets. The big birds and their young are more dispersed in late summer as their fall migration approaches. Four photos from four recent visits to Erie Marsh just over the Michigan line.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Kids learned to hook and cook fish yesterday at Cannonball Prairie Metropark, where fishing is reserved for special youth programs. Participants got hands-on lessons in fish cleaning and cooking at the ODNR Division of Wildlife mobile kitchen.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Female mallards with ducklings on the Maumee River at Farnsworth and Side Cut Metroparks Wednesday evening.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The second episode of The Living Wild by WGTE and Metroparks explores the threats that invasive species pose to our native environment. youtu.be/Jt8VazDhBME?...
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Current Threats - The Invasion
YouTube video by WGTE Public Media
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A black-crowned night heron, with a great egret in the background, in the trees at Erie Marsh Preserve Monday afternoon.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I was looking for a vibrant butterfly on a colorful flower in the sun, but found just the opposite. The dull common wood-nymph prefers grass in the shade.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A broad-winged hawk was hanging out beside Oak Ooenings Parkway Sunday afternoon.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Riding the wind on Maumee Bay.
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Scott Carpenter @toledooutdoors.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A five-part video series by WGTE Public Media begins today. “The Living Wild” focuses on Metroparks conservation work in Lucas County, where just 10% of our natural areas are left. The first episode looks at what we have lost. youtu.be/sd4i_SlDuFY?...
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The Habitats We Have Lost
YouTube video by WGTE Public Media
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