It's hard to pick a favorite bird when you live in Florida!
But I fell in love with the Roseate Spoonbill when I first moved here.
And we've only had a few sightings of this beautiful pink bird 'in the wild' over the years.
You would think you could go to the same trails and see the same sights but that's not at all true here in North Central Florida.
My husband and I went over to the Halpata Tastanaki Preserve and hiked from the Pruitt Trailhead a week ago and looked up in the sky and saw Roseate Spoonbills!
It was cloudy and they showed up nicely against the grayish silver sky. Later we saw another one fly over when we were having a snack.
Roseate Spoonbill flock, Cedar Key
I looked back at posts that have featured the Roseate Spoonbill and found the one of our sighting of a flock of them in Cedar Key, back in July 2012 HERE.
That was the first time I had seen them in the wild and I wasn't even sure what they were!
We can see them at Ellie Shiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park.
This is a mosaic I made of photos we took there a couple of years ago and posted them HERE.
Close up of their feathers
So that was our excitement on Hike #104! We also had a really good sighting of an Owl but only one photo. I stood there and watched it fly by without even lifting my camera but hubby got one. It was amazing!
Owl in flight
I went back over to this trail a week later and didn't see any of the same birds. Time and chance!
Roseate Spoonbill
Hope you can get out in nature this week and see something neat. Time and chance...but you have to get out there often for that to work in your favor!
