2/26/20

A report on last night:  We took a walk after dinner down by the bayside marina and found a new type of sea life called a sea hare.  It is an invertebrate related to the sea slug. It seems to move at the top of the water like a squid, but without the tentacles.  I tried to take a picture, but it was too dark.  We went back in and played cards.  The boys won again (the score is now 3 to 1), but it was a very close game - we didn't know until the last round who would win.

This morning after breakfast we drove into Sarasota to the Red Bug Slough.  It was not a very big preserve, but we saw 14 species of birds including two new ones.  We also heard a several barking spiders.  We drove to Lido Island where we dropped Cathie off at Armands Circle on Lido Key Beach so she could do some shopping.  The rest of us headed to South Lido Park where we saw very little new birdlife (only 6 species), but did spot a red squirrel and a fiddler crab.  We picked Cathie up and drove to Publix to do our grocery shopping.  Dave went in for a nap and the three of us went out by the pool to read.  It is cloudy, but pleasant at the moment, but we are forecast to have thunder showers and and then rain late this afternoon into the evening.  I'm not sure where we are going out to dinner tonight.

limpkin

wood stork

tri-colored heron

male and female wood ducks

white ibis

cattle eget

common gallinule

unidentified anole

great egret

brown pelican

great blue heron