Cathie and I have major work to do next time we play cards - the boys have won two in a row! At least it happened in the fourth round last night.
We headed to Bradenton this morning after breakfast to hike the Robinson Preserve. What a wonderful park - beautiful paths and tons of birds. We saw lots of nesting osprey and flocks of white pelicans, all of the egrets and most of the herons. We also saw a wood stork, ibises, a pied-billed grebe, hooded mergansers, coots, a merlin, a phoebe, sandpipers, palm warblers, mourning doves, a fish crow, killdeer, blue jay, black. and turkey vultures, anhingas and cormorants, blue-winged teals, and mallards. The park had been planted with gaillardia and beach sunflowers - absolutely stunning. We had a wonderful morning and vowed to come back again next week as we have more trails to explore. On the way back we stopped for lunch at Wicked Cantina on the outskirts of Sarasota. There was plenty of outside widespread seating and the food was very good. Dave is napping and Cathie and I have just come back from reading by the pool. Russ said he would be another half hour.
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