Southern Camping Trip 2024 / Day 40

 Oscar Scherer State Park

Osprey, Florida

Sunday, March 10,  2024   

This blog is going to the dogs.

Marc- We started the morning off with a three mile hike looking for birds.  We did ultimately find some birds and a very nice Irish Cream Retriever.  The highlight was seeing several young Bald Eagles.  Park Service Volunteers had set up telescopes to view them up close and personal so to speak (you could look then in the eye).  Later we took our bikes out for a trip on the Legacy Bike Trial (an old railroad trail that has been professionally converted for bike use) to the Historic Village of Venice.  We were only off of our bikes to cross the drawbridge over the Intracoastal Waterway and to see the downtown shops.  This is one very nice downtown with flowers at every corner and Palm trees and parks.

Woodpecker on a dead tree.

Eagles Nest

Eagle in flight

Young bald eagle coming back to its nest.

Sue's phone app. "Merlin" found the sounds of the above named birds during our hike.

We did not see any up close but we did hear them all.