Our first stop was the Marsh Trail in the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge. We saw spoonbills, glossy ibises, anhingas, egrets, a raccoon and many others in an open marsh with extensive standing water fields. Further along Rte. 41, we stopped at Big Cypress Bend in the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park where we saw a momma gator with about 6 or 7 cubs, [chicks?, pups?, babies?], more water birds and waders. This trail was in a forested wetland.
Our last stop was on Turner River Rd. in the Big Cypress National Preserve where we saw lots of waders and lots of gators. There were wood storks, turkey vultures, white ibises, egrets, several gbh’s, tricolor herons, little blue herons, immature waders, an osprey, anhingas, moorhens, kingfishers and more. The waterways were sometimes forested and sometimes open wetlands.
Roseate Spoonbills.
Three baby alligators with yellow camouflaging.
Baby alligator about one foot long. We saw 6 or 7 hanging around Mom.
One of many adult gators.
Wood Stork, possibly immature nearing adulthood.
Wood Stork adult.
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