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City Nature Challenge 2024, South Florida - Day 4

• Five Wood Ducks present at the Green Cay "Gator Hole" - Three Males and Two Females - Amazing!
• This pair swam in the pond before flying up to the railing 💕
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Mother Raccoon Coping with Her Two Rambunctious Kits
⭐This is one of my favorite observations from several years ago. I didn't take photos, only shot a Video.

• First image is a GIF

• The 4 still photos are snapshots created from the video.
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A Young Florida Green Watersnake
Amazingly, a baby turtle crawled up, inched next to the snake and stayed.

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Grazing on grass and clover. The Gopher Tortoise is native to southeastern US.

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• City Nature Challenge 2023, South Florida

This doe is missing part of her left front leg, see the next photo.
Update: This is Lily. She lost the lower part of her leg from an alligator attack when she was a fawn.

• First image is a GIF created from a video.
• A second White-tailed Deer is present in this observation, see the last photo

• Photos & Video taken along the Marsh Trail
  (This is my first attempt to create a GIF and post it. The GIF animates on a PC browser but may display as a still image on both Android and iPhone.)

This guy was just a wee red blob, but I knew it was something interesting from previous observations from up north :-)

The last image has a scale (mm and 1/2 mm divisions), the bell is about 4mm high.

It can curl up its tentacles so they are just little knobs, which it does when swimming. It can then unfurl those tentacles and drift with them extended.

This Turtle shell was upside down in a dried, muddy swamp buggy track. I do not think it was killed from the wheel going over it, but when the vehicle did drive over it, the Turtle was flipped and remained doomed. I should have taken a photo of how I found it upside down and pressed down in that track. There did not seem like any damage to the shell (that was when I thought this was a Box Turtle) that would have caused its death. It looked like it died from being stuck (or that bottom piece pushed up), and then likely the insects ate it leaving the shell in the same place. Also in hindsight, I should have poured some water over the sandy shell to help show the markings better.
JW Corbett Wildlife Management Area, PBC, FL