March 26, 2025 - Visiting the Stick Marsh by Ground |
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| Here we are at the popular Stick Marsh Critical Wildlife Area. It's a nice place to see the birds, maybe some gators. People also launch boats here. This is the third time for Lynnette and I. Bruce and Ellen have been here many times. | ||||||
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The aptlynamed pinkish Roseate Spoonbill. They don't look like much on the ground but in flight they are very pretty.
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| A menacing-looking Great Blue Heron. | ||||||
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Looking at the mangrove island where all the birds like to nest.
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| Enough said. | ||||||
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| Lynnette with the mangrove island in the background. | ||||||
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| A boat that will never get underway again. | ||||||
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Fishermen pass the bird-nesting mangrove island.
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| The Roseate Spoonbill is very beautiful in flight. | ||||||
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A canal stretches off to the east.
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| And to the west. | ||||||
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| A close-up of the mangrove island. Now you can see nesting Egrets and Spoonbills. | ||||||
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| Another shot of the mangrove island. | ||||||
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| Looking for gators in the canal; none sighted. | ||||||
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A Great Egret flies by.
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| A different Great Egret brings back a stick. That's why they call it the Stick Marsh, I guess. | ||||||
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| Beautiful pink wings. | ||||||
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| About to land back at its nest on the mangrove island. | ||||||
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Close-up of the sunken boat.
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| Black crow! | ||||||
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| Lynnette loves the Stick Marsh! | ||||||
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Leaving the Stick Marsh, we spotted this good-sized gator alongside the canal.
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