A Sunny Day in Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden

 After some rainy cool days it was nice to have a sunny day and go for walk in Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden.  The turtles were sunning themselves on the rocks, while the ducks swam around the pond.

All of the low hanging oranges have been picked from the tree!

Turtles, I like Turtles!

 Turtles were sunning themselves in the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.

Turtle

Turtle

Noxubee Wildlife Refuge

This past sping on our visit to Mississippi, we went to the Noxubee Wildlife Refuge near Louisville. https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Noxubee/ The water was high but the knees of the Cypress tress were still sticking out of the water. The Yellow Warblers had just returned and we also saw an alligator and turtle sunning themselves. There were many wildflowers. We also saw a blue-tailed skink that Mike almost caught! Mike spotted the snake and I believe it is a Mississippi green water snake. We also saw the man made nesting boxes installed in the trees for the Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers. We didn't see any of the woodpeckers as they will start nesting later in April. It was a nice sunny spring day.

Cypress

Alligator

Cypress

Turtle

Yellow Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Cypress knees

Red-winged Blackbird

Blue Tailed Skink

Mike trying to catch a Blue Tailed Skink

Green Water Snake

Green Water Snake

Green Water Snake

A nesting box installed in the trees for the Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers

A nesting box installed in the trees for the Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers