A couple of weeks ago, I was walking past the monarch butterfly house at Lansing’s Fenner Nature Center when a breathless 4-year-old girl hailed me from afar, leaving the rest of her family behind.
“We saw a tookey!” she shouted. Thanksgiving was a week away. Turkeys were on everyone’s mind.
People go to Fenner to relax, walk the paths and breathe in some nature, but they often end up getting an unexpected thrill. I didn’t see the turkey, but a few minutes later, a bald eagle tore a spectacular loop over the trail directly ahead, carrying a squirming squirrel in its talons…