Burrowing Owls
stand guard at
Pioneer Middle School

This gallant pair of burrowing owls stand watch over their young while traffic flows along 90th Avenue in Cooper City. This burrow is located in front of Pioneer Middle School and the owls seem oblivious to the students or the cars.

In this photo, you can see the first baby emerging
from the burrow. It was about 11 AM.

Here you can see two of the babies have emerged
from the burrow and the top of a third one's head
is visible. One parent is on the right.

Around 1:30, I checked in on them and only two babies
were outside the burrow, fussing in the direction
of the only visible parent.

Finally someone showed up with food and this
agressive little one insisted he/she could
do it alone. Tear up the lizard, that is ...

Bird Watching

The ducks and the finch, top and bottom, are new residents of the canal next to my office. The ibis flock was just passing through. On any given day I will see makes and models of birds that are so very different from one another. The diversity of the wildlife here in the Everglades is so amazing to me. And, this is just watching from my office. Imagine if we took an airboat out into the sawgrass plains! What might we see there!