Out to the Canadian this Saturday morning at 8.. pretty quiet. The river flow is down enough to expose some sand bars but it is still about a foot too deep to shrink to main channel and shallow slow side channels or backwaters. Lot of water flowing. I did not see the great blue. There were a couple of kingfishers, some swallows up by the power lines, a couple of doves, a green heron fishing from the low hanging willow, a couple of cattle egrets. Lots of robust Grindelia gumweeds along the jeep road.. also Chaemaecrista partridge pea and white Chamaesaracha (looks sort of like a white solanum). Watched a dark red brown Polistes wasp struggling with a heavy green caterpillar it had killed. It was trying to climb a sunflower and gain a launch pad, but its load was too large and awkward.
No snakes or turtles.. one large white-tailed doe in broad day light standing exploring a sandbar closer to the interstate bridge. It frequently looked up at the bridge with the truck traffic passing along. Wonder what it was thinking.
Getting ready to leave when I heard a familiar roar from long ago in the Everglades and to my astonishment saw this approaching and then passing by with a wave. What would Dr Seuss say?
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