Kent County, Delaware
Monday, 9 August 2010
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Everglades National Park – Gators
Everglades National Park, Homestead, Florida
It was unseasonably cool, so the gators weren’t doing much except laying around. #5 is the biggest one we saw all day, about a 12 footer. He was in the same area as the vultures were fighting, and they eventually got on his nerves enough that he went after them, but missed.
Everglades National Park – Vultures
Everglades National Park, Homestead, Florida
We took a trip to south Florida to visit friends and get warm (still about 2-3 ft of snow on the ground when we left Delaware). Vinsmousseux and her boyfriend were our hosts and chauffeurs for five days.
The first excursion we took was to Everglades National Park, where they apparently have a vulture problem. There was a sign under the one in the first photo explaining that research has shown that keeping one on display like that deters others from roosting in the area (which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, they’re carrion eaters, after all) and that the one hanging there had been obtained at a local landfill. The rest of the vulture photos were from out on the trail, and the sign was back up at the trail head on the way out.
I took a little over 1200 photos on our trip, so more entries will be forthcoming as I sort through them all.
