Corkscrew Swamp

This is a day trip we took last weekend, with my childhood friend Keith, Bink and his friend Travis to Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, a few miles from here. Drought has concentrated all the wildlife! From the tiny feeder fish, to the protected wood stork, they are all are in the only areas left with water.

It cost $10 each and $4 for the kids, I'd say it was well worth our while, we saw a hawk sail over our heads and take out a rat, in the grass, we didn't have a chance to film that. The amount of wildlife we saw that day was amazing. April is a great month for the parks here, but bad in that there has been little or no rain for months, and this is supposed to be the tropics! Pretty arid here in April, it didn't used to be,... its all changing constantly.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• wildlife
• wood stork
• birds
• alligators
• anhinga
• heron
• wildlife sanctuary
• zoo
• florida state parks
• florida birds
• great blue heron
• little blue heron
• roseated spoonbill
• spoonbills
• turtles
• egrets

[hardplayproductions]

Very cool, plus the hawk at the beginning is a Red-shouldered Hawk. Amazing place isn't it?

[pir8looks840]

I was there about the same time. Amazing place. Here's some of the birds in the video: Great Heron, Snowy Egret, Roseate Spoonbill, Black Crowned Night Heron, Anhinga, Wood Stork. When I was there I saw a lot of Ibis too, but didn't see any in the video.

[palcook]

Amazing video of God's creation.........Audrey, YOUR eye(s) and this locale......simply beautiful!

[Ketabill]

What a gorgeous video.

[saltypupp]

WOW good job