Another impressive bird of Southern Florida is the limpkin (Aramus guarauna). I encountered this one in Fort Myers at the Six Mile Cypress Slough. Now that I am returned to birding in the Northeast, I am even more impressed with the diversity and the density of Florida wildlife and this despite the very obvious decline of both. It is a very gnawing sadness.

“Try as she will, the trackless world delivers
No way, the wilderness of light no sign,
The immense and complex map of hills and rivers
Mocks her small wisdom with its vast design.”

A.D Hope Death of the Bird