Color blooming in downtown Safety Harbor in late September.
It was a quiet morning during the week at the gazebo. This is usually a busy spot on the weekends with events going on here.
Murals off Main Street.
This guy is a regular visitor to the park in front of the pier. HIs owner was busy looking at his phone instead of enjoying the morning out (I know, I’d be doing the same thing).
I found some new friends at Horsepower for Kids Sanctuary in late November. The toucan is a fairly new resident and was very friendly (he was surrendered by his owner).
You don’t often see white turkeys.
The ducks were being their usual cute selves in the big pond.
Roosters have a run of the sanctuary. Some are skittish and stay in the bushes and some will walk right up to you.
The big shells were enjoying their breakfast.
This guy was showing off.
Baby ducks were everywhere on my walk around Carillon Park after work in late April. It looks like those baby moorhens were sitting on cotton in the first picture but that is some kind of algae growing in the lake.
There was also a limpkin trying to feed 2 little babies.
A few of the other birds on my walk. A yellowlegs, a parrot eating something high in a tree and an anhinga with a snack.
Other critters at the lake.
Spring was already in full swing at the Largo Botanical Gardens in late March.
The butterfly garden was full of monarchs.
A few of the critters at the gardens.
More monarchs to come. The milkweed was full of caterpillars.
Love was in the air during our visit to Butterfly World in south Florida. The little birds were all flirting and mating. It would be fun to go back and see if there were any little babies in the nests there.
Crazy young mockingbird.
Great blue heron soaking up the morning sun.
A moorhen taking a bath.
A white ibis high up in a tree.
Wild parrots are common at the Largo Nature Preserve.
A very young little blue heron coming in for a landing. He was a little unsteady on his feet.
Just a few things I saw on my Saturday morning walk at Largo Nature Preserve.
