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| Glossy ibis--my favorite photo of the day. |
The middle of a very hot afternoon is the wrong time to take a hike around a wetland, but that's the way my trip went yesterday. The temperature was over 90 with not a cloud in the sky and no shade along the trail, but I had remembered my hat, sunscreen, and water bottle and I was not planning to let the heat deter me.
I've wanted to visit Orlando Wetlands Park for years, but it kept being closed for hunting season or otherwise inaccessible. I spent only an hour there yesterday but that was long enough in the heat; I saw egrets, herons, whistling ducks, ibises, anhingas, limpkins, moorhens, and a great big hawk, plus a pair of turtles and a whole lot of peace and beauty. Later I went to a local park with an old friend to gawk at anhingas and watch a fish go airborne--involuntarily.
My wetlands walk left me sweaty and sunburned with blisters on my feet (because I wore the wrong shoes), but it made me want to go back. (Preferably when it's not so hot.)
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| Limpkin and ducks |
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| juvenile ibis |
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| anhinga |
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| a very surprised fish |
2 comments:
Hahaha! That fish is saying, "Hey! I didn't book this flight!"
Yes! It went by so quickly that at first I couldn't even register what it was. Neat thing to see.
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