This year due to the hurricanes that swept through the area last year, instead of a small muddy lake and lots of muddy marsh where the gators and cranes can hang out it is more like a large lake with no shore area! This means nowhere for the gators to bask or for the cranes to feed. A whole different beauty and some birds we had not seen last year, we still are having a great time.
We are visiting family in the area and last week had some family out from Las Vegas, so we all went out the the prairie:
Below, we saw this bird for the first time last year in the Tampa area and now here they are further north! A limpkin!
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| limpkin |
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| the rest of my group entering the boardwalk |
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| lots of anhingas this year also |
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| pretty scene |
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| green heron |
there were a few snakes
hanging out on a bush in
the water trying to warm
up
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this big guy actually
moved a few steps while
we watched
so happy to have a little sun
I'm sure; Been much colder
here this year as in many
other places in the country
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| this was a nice day though |
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| a limpkin plucks an apple snail from the water, it's favorite food |
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| cattle egret resting on one leg |
a great egret out hunting
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| another bird I do not remember seeing here last year, a bittern |
armadillos are fun to watch but since I found out they carry leprosy....wow!
After leaving the prairie, we did come across several sandhill cranes hanging out in a nearby cattle field:
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