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.

Critters and Crusts!: REVISED :-}

Before hunting season started, we took one last ride into the woods.

We stopped and saw some streams where the ice had already started to freeze them, and we saw a few woods' creatures just to make the day a success.

I saw this foam on the side of a rapids, and noticed that the foam had frozen into the most amazing shapes:

And we saw this creature swimming way far out in a dam.

Can you guess what it is?

Here is a hint: it's tail is stuck on a branch, and it is a playful animal:

Didn't guess yet?

I will give you one more view in a minute.


This little guy was so busy eating seed pods, he stayed on top of that log and let me take about 15 pictures of him. He was so cute!:


One more of the frozen river foam:

(Doesn't it look like frozen threads?):



Here is ONE more view of the mystery critter:I am going to be cruel and not tell you what animal it is until you make guesses in the comments section of this blogpost.

The first one to guess gets mention in a future blogpost!

Just because I feel like playing with you today!

I've gotta have SOME fun with my blog, don't I????

REVISED: obviously, it would have really helped if I hadn't put the words "OTTER PHOTOGRAPHS" in my post labels. hahaha DUH. But Lorac got the answer first...stop by her blog, it has some great photography too!