More Nature, Can You Stand It?

We were up bright and early and if all the wildlife we saw on our walk is any indication it is true that the early bird gets the worm and you can take that literally as you will see later.

It was still kind of dark when we came upon the first pair of sandhill cranes and they had two chicks with them, not the best of pictures but at least we have documented that they are there.


Down just a bit further it was bunny alley, if we saw one bunny today, we saw 50. Have never seen so many on our walk.


All set up for the Spring Fling, guess it wasn't a very good day for them seeing as how it rained almost all day at our house. So I'm sure they got some rain there.

Shooting across the pond at the second pair of sandhill cranes with their two babies. I really like how they reflected in the pond.

Now we are on the berm heading back to the car and this was our first alligator of the day. This is a bigger one then we normally see and he was right at the edge.

This is the pair that had the first hatched chick and they were right on the berm with us, so we got really close to them. They have to be careful because that gator was just on the other side of the berm and I'm sure sandhill crane chick makes a tasty breakfast.


Just looking around, the chick was more concerned than the mom and dad.



The dad (just assuming it was the dad, don't know for sure and don't know why I would think that) pulled up a worm and put it down for the chick to eat and he thought it was a tasty breakfast.

This is the gator I think we have seen before, looked more like the size of the one that is usually along the edge of the pond. But today he was out in the middle a long ways from the other gator.

That is one humongous snail this bird was having for breakfast, didn't really know what it was until we got home and I could zoom in on the picture and get a better look at it.

So as you can see we had quite the walk today. We also ran into Mum and Dad, once when they were trying to find a place to park and then out on the berm just before the single sandhill crane chick.

We were off to Burger King for our tasty breakfast. Dan tried one of those new breakfast wraps that they have and said it was pretty good. Did you hear that Andy?

Then it was to WalMart and Publix for shopping. Then home for a quiet, rainy day.