I continued the Thanksgiving day 2007 nature walk that I had started at Wakodahatchee by heading out to the Green Cay Wetlands. Green Cay is another water reclamation area similar to Wakodahatchee, but larger and fancier--it has a visitor's center and stuff. This was my first time there, and I enjoyed it a lot. On this particular day, there were a lot more birds at Green Cay, although fewer other critters like gators.
| This is a limpkin. |
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| Here's a Little Blue Heron on the prowl. I thought it was interesting that you could see bird tracks in the mud under the water all around him (although they don't show up too well in the picture). |
| This one is a Glossy Ibis. |
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| Many of the animals, like this Tricolor Heron, have become used to people being around. |
| Duck in duckweed. |
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| This was the only gator I saw there this day. A few moments after I shot the second pic (right), he sank like a submarine and totally disappeared from view. |
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| This little grebe was fascinating. He'd preen himself, then hold his wings out like this, then preen himself some more. |
| I first saw this bedraggled wet anhinga as he was climbing to the top of this slanted palm trunk. Some people who were nearby told me he'd actually climbed over a couple of turtles, pushing them off, on his way up. I would've liked to have seen that. |
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