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We drove through in the late afternoon one day last weekend. We didn’t see a lot but I was excited to see the black neck stilts. I think their pink legs are so cute!

Here we have Mr and Mrs Kingfisher. Usually the male of the species is the colorful one but with kingfishers the female gets the color.

Now we have Mr and Mrs Hooded Merganser.

We’v had the absolute best time this week shooting pictures of birds every day at Black Point Drive, Merritt Island. Here are a few more of our favorite shots, no romance with these characters though.

We are still at Merritt Island taking pictures at Black Point Drive. Reddish Egrets are so cool the way they “dance” through the water looking for fish. There are 3 or 4 here, the one in these pictures is the prettiest with his reddish mane. They don’t travel in groups, usually we see them one at a time.

We’ve been riding around and through Black Point Drive (Merritt Island) for the last few days. The Roseate Spoonbills are plentiful right now. Do you know what a large group of Spoonbills is called? A bowl. Isn’t that fun? We had so many great pictures this post is just Spoonbills.

We are staying in the parking lot of an Elks Lodge, we’ll be here for a few days. Word is they cook every night yippee. We are the only ones here for now, gotta love the quiet.

Thanks to Walt and Shane helping us get out of our space this morning and special thanks to Walt for finishing up the deck stairs. 💟

Here’s where we are. Stay tuned for bird photos from Black Point Drive. We are just a few miles from there and will spend a lot of time over there taking pictures.

We used Deck Correct to refinish our deck. It was a lot of work but we love the color.

We drove through Apopka on Sunday. There was little traffic the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend. An awful lot of people were stuck at airports or otherwise having a miserable time driving home so I’m sure that had something to do with it. The roads had been worked on since the last time we were there. Still not paved but didn’t see a single pothole so that was great. We saw tons of stuff including many alligators. No pelicans or spoonbills but lots of other birds. Here are our best shots.

We are sad to be leaving. Even though we had to suffer through another bout of covid we are in a beautiful place and have been very well care of by Holly and Justin. We so enjoyed the time we had with our two grandsons. Wish we lived closer than 1700 miles. Tomorrow starts our 8 day trek home to Florida.

We ate dinner with the Riders one night and enjoyed Justin’s homemade bread.

Holly made soup one night and it was not only delicious but pretty. Homemade broth, chicken with spinach.

Finn brought home his woodworking project. It’s very cool and he had a story to go with it about him in the water park. The class is taught by a local woman, 85 years old. I say she’s a national treasure.

Here’s a funny

These shots (by Vic) are from the day trip to Captiva in June.

This is from our day trip to Captiva back in June while we were staying at Geri’s house in Ft Meyers, FL

This is Zoe in her winter coat this morning walking around the cul de sac here in NH. It got down to 34 overnight. We had to get more propane this morning when we ran out about 7 am.

GOOD NEWS: covid test is negative !!!

This is from our day trip to Captiva back in June while we were staying at Geri’s house in Ft Meyers, FL

This is Zoe in her winter coat this morning walking around the cul de sac here in NH. It got down to 34 overnight. We had to get more propane this morning when we ran out about 7 am.

GOOD NEWS: covid test is negative !!!