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Another Nice Surprise

Yesterday, we combined a grocery trip to Gainesville with a birding visit to a new spot for us: Sweetwater Wetlands Park, a birding mecca of 125 acres of wetlands and ponds right in the city. While we saw dozens of neat birds, the star attraction was this small Sandhill Crane family.

As we approached, we saw several birders watching a Sandhill Crane.
Then we noticed that they had a chick.
There were two chicks.
A family portrait.