See that fancy fan dancer? She’s a Purple Gallinule, and she’s been on my list of most-want-to-see-birds for several years. Every year I come up with a few birds that I’d like to find in our travels—kind of a treasure hunt, of the feathered variety. My most recent list included Purple Gallinules (because they’re so […]
Archive for Everglades
If someone had asked me where I wanted to spend my birthday, I doubt that I would have said, “How about a swamp?” Nonetheless, that’s where we found ourselves in mid-December. After leaving the Keys, we traveled about 100 miles to Big Cypress Swamp, a wild natural preserve that nestles against the eastern edge of […]
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