We'll start this post off with a quiz! Can you find and name the animal in the photo below? Answer appears in the last picture of the post.
We went out to Paines Prairie for a hike to see the sandhill cranes. A small sampling of what we found instead was:
The sentry at the gate - an alligator basks at the entrance to his part of the prairie.
White walkers - a great egret and snowy egret hunt where there's a current through a culvert.
Stormy skies and vultures.
Stormy skies and great blue herons.
Another great egret.
Another snowy egret, keeping a respectful distance from its seemingly-sleeping companion. Note the gator's abdominal wound.
Portrait of an alligator.
Portrait of two human beings.
A flock of red-winged blackbirds flushed.
A cohort of coots.
And the American bittern out of hiding.
The best sighting of sandhill cranes for us remains right around the block from our house, where hundreds of cranes are foraging and frolicking in the pastures with the cattle.
