This adult Green Heron was carefully supervising her young while it was learning to hunt. Her perch is the roots of the water lily plant called Spatterdock, they get absolutely huge. The Venetian Gardens in Leesburg, where this was taken, are doing a major cleanup of the waterways and it is rapidly turning into an exceptional spot for viewing birds of all kinds, along with otters and gators.
The old settlement of Island Grove is located near Cross Creek and in fact is the burial site of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings of "The Yea...
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