Re: The Annual Off-Season RASN Get-to-know-ya Poll

"John McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> >  blue heron. They are 4' tall and act and sound like
> >> > ptereodactyls when disturbed.
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> >  Eerie big birds but I like them.
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> Yeah, I like the blue herons too - get them out back on the little
> lake all the time.  Occasionally get white ones too - the blues
> are common, but the whites I think are just found around the
> Everglades.

We get  a lot of big white herons. I am on Bannana River near the edge of
the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge aka Kennedy Space Center. Tons of birds
and hundreds of sq miles of native Florida.
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> Do you get anhingas?  That's another neat bird, there's one sits
> on my little dock & dries her wings most mornings.

Snake Birds!
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> Most folk around here take their weed-whackers and trim everything
> right down right to the edge of the lake.  I let the grass & weeds
> & stuff grow long right next to the water, so it's full of bugs
> & little frogs & things that fish eat, so the fish will be there
> to attract the birds.

Seawall right to the edge here I am afraid. Better for the boat though.
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