A cormorant sits on an exposed branch, wings spread wide, to allow the sun and the wind to dry his feathers. All the while he scans the blue waters below for another meal: A blue gill or a young bass.
Over there, a blue heron stands in the reeds, as if frozen, imobile. Only his eyes dart from spot to spot. Also on the look-out for an eatable victim.
Overhead, a southern bald eagle lazily drifts on an upward current of warm air.
A white Ibis, his red beak curved like an arabian sabre, carefully struts through the shallow water.
On the other side of the pond, an Aligator, partially hidden by the roots of a gumbo limbo warms his blood in the last rays of a dying sun.
Sawgrass, swamp lillies, palm trees, strangler figs and so many more plants, too many to count, too beautiful to ignore, too rare not to protect, make up what is surely one of the worlds most varied, beautiful and interesting habitats: THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES.
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