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.

Florida Vacation Photos: The LAST one in the set!

This is the last of my set of Florida vacation photos, which is probably a good thing, since I did quite a few posts! :-}

Have you ever seen an angel?

Are you SURE?

Because I saw one, hiding in the trees:

If THAT wasn't an angel's wing, I don't know what is.

Oh, sure.....

There was also a white pelican hiding in the tree, too:

Just LOOK at his huge wingspan!

It is amazing that he could land there at all:

Magnificent!

I think maybe they are the ones that give angels lessons on how to use their wings, once they've earned them:

Time for a little bath:

And this one is doing his daily walk:



I have never been lucky enough to capture a picture of an owl in the wild.
But the bird sanctuary gave me the next best thing:

I loved this HUGE tropical plant!:

Doesn't it look like the kind that reaches out and eats people?







Oooooo...

another chance for a darling little owl face:

And this little guy, airing out his wings!:

But I am still SCARED from this PLANT!:


Time to head back north, to home.......

But not before I got this last shot of a my favorite: a Pelcian (with ATTITUDE!):

He is saying: "You HAVE taken enough pictures of "our kind" now?

"Go HOME already!"

Fine.

But I will be heading back down again in April (because our youngest daughter is expecting her baby then).

So they may want to assume another identity with the FBI and go into hiding.....