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Posted by SaraAlice on 18:20:29 03/29/11
On a weekend trip to Lake Placid for a retreat we found numerous hawks which I, the driver, couldn't id quickly except for some red sholdered. There were the usual kingfishers, kesterals, a marsh hawk male, cormorants, anhingas, moorhens.
At the retreat,(sand and longleaf pine,oak, scrub,cacti and a small lake and orange groves) about 2 miles SE of town, there were tons of cardinals, catbirds, ospreys, blue jays, redbellied wdpeckers, a common egret and a tricolor. Grey squirrels and a racooon. Smell of a large cat - bobcat?.
One of the ladies saw a "very big" owl just before dawn and it bathed in the lake for 15 min. We also saw two bald eagles that were low enough for everyone to see clearly, and then they rose up miles into the clouds til they looked like little pencil lines. I watched an osprey swoop and grab a bunch of Spanish moss, drop it, and return to get it off the beach. Most of the platform nests around the Lake have ospreys on them.
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