Last night the girls won the card game, but it was very close. We only won by 500 points - a good game! We watched a bit of Olympics, then called it a night.
We had intended to walk the beach this morning while Russ was running, but it was quite chilly and windy so we walked toward town and then came back to the condo. After breakfast we drove to Osprey to the state park. Our first part of the walk was through the pine scrub area. Many of the trees were loaded with Spanish moss. We didn't see much bird activity there: a cat bird, morning dove, tufted titmouse, mocking bird, cedar waxwings, and finally a wonderful red-bellied woodpecker. We then hiked to the pond and had much better luck: a bald eagle flew over just as we arrived at water. Then we saw some Avocets, a willet, an anhinga drying his wings, American egret, little blue heron, purple gallinule, a killdeer, some coots, and a very loud and tall limpkin on a small island across from us. We bumped into some people from Columbus, OH who were looking for alligators. We directed them to Myakka River. Just as we got abreast of the end of the island, we looked across and spotted a BAA (big-assed alligator) with two snowy egrets nearby. He was at least 6 feet long and very wide. On our way back to the parking lot, we finally saw a red-shouldered hawk that we had been hearing throughout the park. We were all starving and discovered it was just past 1:00 so we drove the 20 minutes back to the condo for lunch. Dave is in for his nap. Russ and Cathie just came back from reading near the pool. I opted to sit on the balcony and read for a bit before starting the blog. We are having leftovers for dinner tonight to clear out the fridge. I had some trouble importing all of the photos for today so will put up the ones that came through and will get the others up later or tomorrow.
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