Thursday, March 6, 2025

3-5-2025 Red Bug Slough Preserve

The important news first - the girls one in a very tight game last night!  Yay!!  

Note from yesterday - we saw brown pelicans at the beach.  Forgot to include them.

Due to a forecast of rain starting around noon today, we opted to goto Red Bug Slough.  We had great luck today on our walk.  Firstly we met a very nice man who is a local professor of ecology.  He was waiting for his students to arrive so they could have a field lab.  Almost as soon as we started our walk, we spotted three swallow tailed kites soaring overhead.  It was a spectacular sight, but difficult to catch on camera as they dart so quickly.  Other highlights of the walk were a wood stork and a couple of roseate spoonbills.  We also heard, but couldn't catch on camera, a Northern parula warbler.

Other birds spotted were: pileated woodpecker, red bellied woodpecker, red-winged blackbird, a pair of wood ducks, great blue heron and a little blue, black vulture, white ibis, cormorant, anhinga, mocking bird, cartdinal, morning dove, and some unidentified ducks.  We also spotted a water snake (which the professor and his students saw caught and eaten by a great blue), turtles and a rabbit.  All in all, it was a very successful walk.  

On our way back for lunch, we stopped at the Phillippi Creek farmer's market.  It was small, but well represented.  We bought a few things and then went back for lunch at the condo.  

We will have our leftover chicken and veggie dish with fresh green beans tonight and hopefully the ladies will have another successful game of hand and foot.  Fingers crossed!








 

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