Part ONE: Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park in Florida

My daughter's future Mother-in-Law

volunteers at

Homosassa  Springs Wildlife State Park
in Florida

and was gracious to have invited us

to see it

with her and her family.

She knew how much I love tropical birds and

animals

and that I love to photograph them.

I want to thank her very much for our wonderful day there.

So, for the next few blogposts, I will be sharing with you

some of this lovely park and its enchanting wildlife.

If you ever get to Florida, I highly recommend you make this a stop

on your trip.

It is not a huge park, but very charming and you will get a kick out of the animals.

It used to be privately owned and now the state of Florida has purchased it.

All the animals in it are native to Florida, (except LuLu, the 51 year old

resident hippopotamus..(more on her in blogposts to come!).

It just happened to be  her birthday on the day we went to the park!!)

So, relax, put your feet up and let's start the tour of some of the sites, shall we?

Thankfully, the only alligators we saw while in Florida were at this park!:

I am sorry to say that I don't recall the name of this kind of bird!

Maybe if Cindy is reading this, she can leave me a comment to let us know?!:

(I purposely shot him from the back as I loved his red cap!)

This bear had taken off the garbage can top and was playing around with it

like a flying saucer...it was too funny!:

Here is that same bird from the front. Isn't he a beauty?:

I think this is a white pelican....just chillin' out in the sun:

A Cormorant cooling off by spreading his wings:

A magestic eagle:

Just LOOK at the brilliant ORANGES and PINKS

on this Flamingo's feathers.

They said it depends on what they eat (berries and such) that determines their colors.

I'd say this guy must be eating at the right places!!

It is spectacular!:

My next blogpost will have more shots of these spectacular birds

along with more of Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park...

Hope to see you then!!
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