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.
I think I was told that Watson was still alive after he was shot. And the courthouse would have been in Ft. Myers, there being no Collier County at that time.
You could be right. It’s fascinating that you knew an actual eye witness to some of those events.
Back in 1983, I walked into a freshwater marsh on Cumberland Island and the trees erupted with hundreds and hundreds of the White Ibis.
It was a spectacular experience
Look at those red legs against the red stems! Beautiful, as usual! Thanks for making my day — it’s been snowing here all day.
SNOW in ORINDA!?! I’ve only seen snow in N. CA one time and that was in 1972. The cold weather killed (they thought) all the eucalyptus in the Berkeley/Oakland hills. But, it all grew back, only to be destroyed by fire 20 years later.
Sad to say, at the time, I had no knowledge of who Mr. Watson was and little appreciated what I was being told.
Beautiful, Swampy!
Wet and miserable here as well. Sposed to get more rain tom. As one of the old guys so succinctly put it—”It can deeper, but it can’t get no wetter!” LOL
My wife was driving thru the tunnel and she called me .
Mount Diablo looks like Fuji..
We had a eucalyptus in our backyard i cut it down and then let my dogs pee on it,RIP
I thought this some Southerner recipe I hadn’t heard of yet.
Beautiful Pictures.
That’s some chicken! The colors are very nicely balanced.
Beautiful!!
One of my favorite things about living in S. FL is walking out my front door and seeing these fellas in the yards, poking around for a meal. Thanks for the photos!
I remember going in a restaurant in either Chokoloskee or Everglades City. Think it was Everglades City, right on the circle.
There was a water line on the wall from Hurricane Donna.
The waterline was about 8 ft. up the wall. The restaurant built up about 5 ft.above ground (sea) level.
The waitress said they rode out the hurricane in a boat tied up in the mangroves!! Can’t imagine doing that.
I rode the storm out in Miami, about 100 miles away from the eye and the winds were 90 mph.
Better know where you’re going around those mangrove islands or you can get hopelessly lost.
Still, it’s a very interesting memory to have.
I thought this was gonna be a recipe!
Tastes like chicken?
That it is.
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