Wild Animal Park

February 9, 2016

I’ve given up any idea of convincing myself I do not live in a wild animal park. Sometimes I think it is ridiculous that I enjoy the backyard as much as I do, but understand what I’m saying: I’m not traveling nowhere to see all these creatures. All of them, except the one heron – the black crowned night – and the moorhen, have shown up in the backyard. I…

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Back to the Swamp

February 5, 2016

Lettuce Lake Park again. We were there only about an hour before the park was meant to close. But we overstayed. For the second visit, we were again, the last ones to leave. There, on the swamp floor appropriately, we saw two Common Gallinules. Like all the other animals beside the boardwalk at the park, they seemed to have learned that there is nothing to fear from visitors. So we…

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