Maple Sugaring

 
Photos of today’s field trip: 
One must take cash to buy maple sugar leaves…..boy are they good.
 

 
Can you say : Sinzibukhud???? It is Native American for Maple Syrup.
 

 
I love the sugar house, one can almost pretend to live in colonial times for just a bit.
 

The colonial kettle drum for boiling down the sap. Last year the metroparks collected 118,000 buckets of sap and are doing fairly well this year so far. You must have cold nights and warm days for the sap to run well apparently.
 
We also saw a red headed woodpecker, I was lamenting that I don’t have a good enough lens to get a proper close up of him.  I started looking for him because I heard him calling and we must have one in our neighborhood as I’ve heard them before. Once I found him it was easy to follow him around for a bit.
 
Funny that you can’t see his red head in this picture. Drats!!!