Part FIVE: Homosassa Springs Wildlife Park in Florida

Continuing with the lovely scenes and birds and animals

at the

Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park

in Florida.

I can never get over the beauty of these birds with their "flowing hair":

A Great Heron amongst the Spanish-mossed trees:

A Great Heron at the nest. Oh, how I wish I could've seen heron babies!!:

Do you know the Cormorants spread their wings like this to cool off?

They had a little underground tunnel to observe the fish as they swam underwater!:

"Who you lookin' at??":

Oh God!!

Wood Ducks!:

(Be still my heart!)

I am convinced THE FORCE decided to make the most beautiful duck one day,
so they dipped in a bunch of bright, beautiful paint cans and used every color in the rainbow--

and decided to make the Wood Duck and the Harlequin Duck!:

A whole TON of white Ibis just hanging out in the bushes!:

I may take a break tomorrow

and show you some more snow pictures, because I am sure many of you already have Spring in your

area and I don't want to forget to post the rest of the snow pictures I have from this winter.

Then, after the snow blogposts, I will get back to more Florida photos for you!

Part THREE: Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park in Florida

We had such fun at the Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park

in Florida,

that this is part of a series of blogposts of photos taken there.

If you missed the other ones, just go down to the bottom of this page

and hit "older posts" to enjoy the rest.

This bear just cracked us up...he took the top of the garbage can, played with it for a while,

and then sunbathed!:

When we first got there, we took a lovely boat tour down the river in the park.

This was great for us Michiganders to see the natural state of Florida woods and rivers:

A lovely golden eagle:

I am totally smitten with Ibis....and their long, gorgeous white feathers on their back:

They nurse a lot of sick birds and animals back to health at this park...

I loved seeing this great heron walking here:



I SO wanted to comb through those long feathery strands on his tail!:

A playful otter coming to say hi:

I  have YET to capture a photo of an owl in the wild of the U.P. of Michigan...

so I was glad to be able to at least get some shots of some owls

at this park.

I find owls just mesmerizing!:

Just LOOK at his pretty face!:

I still have some more photos of this lovely park...

so join me again next time to see nature at Florida's best there.....

I may be interspersing some contrasting winter photos from Michigan
with the rest of these Florida pictures on some upcoming blog posts, as I still have some left of our winter to share with you all yet too.

Part TWO: Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park in Florida: (Otherwise known as "It's all about Flamingos!) !!

Today....

it is

ALL ABOUT

Flamingos!!!

I am dedicated this entire blogpost to the beautiful

Flamingos

we saw at the Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park.

There will be a lot more pictures posted about this wonderful

park, but today, I had to devote the entire post to these gorgeous birds.

Also today, I'm going to be quiet

(I know! A near impossible feat!!)

and just let you gaze at the wonder of these birds:

An Ibis, a flamingo and a swan in one shot!! :

Forget those

oh-so-tacky

Flamingo statues people put in their yards....

I want a REAL one for my yard this summer.

And?

If he stays until winter in the U.P....

those long legs will be a HIT

to ice skate with!!!!!

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