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1 - March 6 - Our condo and Lover's Key State Park
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2 - March 7 - Sanibel and Captiva Islands
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3 - March 8 - Everglades
Page 4 - March 9 - Edison and
Ford estates, then dinner with Marge
Page 5 - March 10 - Botanical garden and
visits with relatives
Page 6 - March 11 - Kayaking on Sanibel
Page 7 - March 12 - Relaxing at our resort
and kayaking to Mound Key
Species we saw
on this trip
(No, we don't pretend we could identify them all again!)
Birds
Brown pelican
American white pelican
Bald eagle
Osprey
Roseate spoonbill
White ibis
Glossy ibis
Wood stork
Great blue heron
Great white heron
Yellow-crowned night heron
Green heron
Little blue heron
Tricolor heron
Double-crested cormorant
Kingfisher
Anhinga
Herring gull
Ring-billed gull
Royal tern
Caspian tern
Pie-billed grebe
Cattle egret
Great egret
Reddish egret (claimed to be the official name!)
Snowy egret
Black vulture
Turkey vulture
Moorhen
Boat-tailed grackle
Crow
Black-necked stilt
Duck (several kinds we didn't identify)
Other animals
American alligator
Bottle-nose dolphin
Manatee!
Anole
Horseshoe crab (dead)
Other kinds of crabs we didn't identify
Jellyfish (dead)
Raccoon
Stingray
Eastern oyster
Deer
The world's dumbest squirrel
But no mosquitoes!
Trees
Red mangrove
White mangrove
Black mangrove
Willow
Live oak
Other plants
Spanish
moss
Bromeliads (many different ones)
Sea grapes
Bald cypress
Saw grass
Bull thistle
Sneeze weed
Orchids (many different ones)
Bougainvillea
Many others
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