Juvenile Wood Stork, sitting under an Oak tree in Pineneedle, 7.17.21
When the Anhinga pair left the nest it built overhanging the pond, I wondered where they went. And then a few days ago (today is 7.19.21) when I saw this Anhinga in breeding plumage, I imagined it was one of them checking the nesting box.
Join the checking-out-the-box crowd, I thought. After days without a hen in sight, Steve found the box filled with over 18 eggs dumped by multiple hens. Fooled me. Not being able to distinguish one hen from another, I thought incubation was a go. I faithfully watched imagining the vigilant hens were tending ducklings in the becoming process.
Lately I've seen many young ones in the neighborhood.
Two Yellow-Crowned Night Heron juveniles looking quite adult-like.
Green Heron looking right and left in a salsa dance way.
A monarch newly emerging from a chrysalis's in the Holtsberg's butterfly garden (Springlakes).
I met Rose Marie from Oak Village as we observed a large Florida Snapping Turtle. She told me how someone driving by said, "Get that turtle out of the street." Rose Marie said she didn't know the turtle species here and decided to let the turtle cross the road. Wise thinking.
Then Gail said hello and shared photographs of Armadillos. I used to see Armadillos all the time. This is the first time I've heard of a sighting here in Wildewood. This one is looking for ants, their favorite food. Here are five reasons they're awesome.
