| When heron's leave the marsh and fly above the clouds they announce the coming of a storm. |
| One evening we labored, stung by nettles and mosquitoes, to set up Sewell's camera blind on Otter Pond in the great marsh. |
| Summer wildflowers include meadow-beauty, marsh pink, wild pea, and round-leaved rattlebox. |
| The marsh supports American toads, midland painted turtles, Blanding's turtles, snapping turtles, and Lake Erie water snakes. |
| The principal game birds of Britain are grouse, partridge, pheasant, plus woodcock, pigeon, quail, and various wild duck and marsh fowl. |
| The main landscape feature is endless peatbog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires. |
