Framedlight

I flew into Orlando on Monday to visit my sister in law Anne as we are going to Chicago together.Yesterday we spent most of the day in Orlando Wetlands Park, an area of swamp and lake that has been created by the City of Orlando as part of their wastewater treatment plan. It is an area very rich in birds and reptiles and I took a large number of pictures which I will group below. The day was cloudy to start with but then grew quite hot, especially for me.  Starting with the general landscape, the swamp cypress trees have widened trunks like the mangrove. Then onto the birds we saw. Here in order is the glossy ibis, the wood stork and the female grackle, a bird a little larger than a blackbird. The wood storks were hanging out by some trees  which were overlooked by a mound, presumably built or that reason. Anne was standing at the  base of the mound so I also took a picture of her. Florida teems with turk...