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CHOKOLOSKEE CHICKEN
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| DECEMBER 07, 2009
| swampsniper
Posted on 12/07/2009 5:28:50 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
In a particular part of Florida the White Ibis is known as the Chokoloskee Chicken. There is at least one FREEPER near Chokoloskee, they are a wild and rowdy bunch down there!
North Florida FREEPERS, on the other hand, are genteel and cultivated!
It's cloudy, wet and windy. Everything is hunkered down and waiting out the weather. The onshore wind has pushed the water way up in the marsh and the birds are hanging out on little islands.
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: bird; chicken; chokoloskee; florida; ibis; photo; whiteibis
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posted on
12/07/2009 5:30:01 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Where I come from “choking the chicken” has a completely different meaning...
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posted on
12/07/2009 5:36:18 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: freedumb2003
Y’all are sort of strange out there!
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posted on
12/07/2009 5:37:57 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Thanks for the pics. As a native Floridian, I sometimes take these sights for granted. But you do them justice.
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Chokoloskee is that Indian?
Talking about weird weather it snowed in Nth CA down in Orinda weirdest thing i have ever seen..
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posted on
12/07/2009 5:38:08 PM PST
by
GSP.FAN
(These are the times that try men's souls.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Y’all are sort of strange out there! Amazingly, that is frequently the reaction I get... ;)
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posted on
12/07/2009 5:40:28 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
North Florida FREEPERS, on the other hand, are genteel and cultivated!Oh Really!
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posted on
12/07/2009 5:41:29 PM PST
by
darkwing104
(Lets get dangerous)
To: freedumb2003
Only until you need glasses, please, and keep the hair on your palm neatly combed!
To: freedumb2003
I was over in Everglades City a month or so ago, fishing. I like it over there, beautiful country. Saw a lot of alligators and caught a few fish.
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posted on
12/07/2009 5:45:05 PM PST
by
Sam Cree
(absolute reality)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Floridians are some of the friendliest people I’ve encountered in my travels. As always I enjoy your birding threads.
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posted on
12/07/2009 5:46:37 PM PST
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
To: darkwing104
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posted on
12/07/2009 5:47:40 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Does the Chicken name relate to the legs? They do look a bit like those of a chicken.
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I don’t see anything that looks chocolate about it.
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posted on
12/07/2009 5:50:03 PM PST
by
fso301
To: Sam Cree; SWAMPSNIPER
I love the Everglades, too! And I thank you, Swampsniper for bringing me a slice of them every now and then.
(Especially when it’s 10 degrees in the Rockies.)
Beautiful!
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Strangest looking chicken I ever saw
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posted on
12/07/2009 5:51:02 PM PST
by
fso301
To: SFConservative
Lots of pioneer types eat them but the government doesn’t like it!
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posted on
12/07/2009 5:59:46 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Years ago, I lived in Naples and am familiar with Chokoloskee. I visited the old general store and post office when it was still being run by the sisters.
The grandfather of a friend told me of seeing, as a young teen, the notorious Mr. Watson alive in a boat in Chokoloskee after his capture in the Ten Thousand Islands. Watson was dead by the time he arrived at the courthouse in Everglades City, killed because his captors were fearful of Watson's vengeance.
To: Rockingham
Shot at Ted Smallwood’s store, so the story goes.
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posted on
12/07/2009 6:11:40 PM PST
by
Sam Cree
(absolute reality)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
"...Chokoloskee Chicken..." Try saying that fast 3 times in a row! Thanks Swampie.
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posted on
12/07/2009 6:13:26 PM PST
by
Grammy
(Politics. .......( poli ) many ( tics ) blood suckers)
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