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Posted by Roger Hammer on 13:57:35 02/19/09
I led a 14-mile Everglades Bike Hike on Long Pine Key in Everglades National Park today (from Gate 4 to Gate 8 and back) and we spooked a wild turkey off the side of the firebreak about a mile west of Gate 4 in the second pineland block.
Everglades researchers have spread cracked corn on the firebreak from the second pineland block all the way to the "T" where it intersects with a north-south firebreak past Wright Hammock. The corn is to attract the turkeys toward cameras that are placed low to the ground to determine whether or not they're producing young. Most of you know that wild turkeys were reintroduced to Long Pine Key a number of years ago.
There were also lots of warblers, and bazillions of tree swallows drinking on the wing from Pine Glades Lake at Gate 8.
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