In early May I went out for a bike ride along the north end of the Pinellas Trail.
My first stop was right before the horse barn on the right. I was looking around to see if the almost grown sandhill cranes were around since that family usually hangs out in the nearby pond. I saw this cute fox squirrel right along the fence. I rarely see them in the Tampa Bay area but they are know to live along this trail area. I’m assuming this is a Sherman’s fox squirrel, one of four subspecies that live in Florida. They are bigger than our common squirrels and have a black face.
Little critters along the fence including the robber fly in the bottom.
A cattle egret was posing for me and he still had his breeding orange feathers.
Farther down the trail I found a pair of sandhill cranes.
A lone Canadian goose was sitting along a pond near the golf course that runs along part of the trial.
I usually see meadowlarks along the fence or at least hear them calling from far away.
There are a lot of gopher tortoise burrows along the fence. I don’t see them out of their holes often but this time I saw two walking around.
On my way back I spotted the crane family far out in the horse pasture. The two babies were getting big fast.
I could see a deer near the crane family and when I cropped up this picture I realized the fox squirrel was in the grass in front of the deer.
