Our nature study for yesterday was planned a study of Geese. Unfortunately, there were no geese at the duck pond yesterday. We quickly opted for studying the Duck but that's changed now too. Also, Alexis and I found ourselves distracted by a completely different creature. That other creature will be a topic for another post. Our attention was absorbed, somewhat, by trying to figure out what that other critter was.. but this post is about birds.

Originally, this post was to be written about our wonderful trail hike through Bulow Creek State Park and the beautiful live oaks. But since the trip was neither wonderful, nor did we complete the hike, it is now about bugs. Why? Because our entire day was spent fighting off Lone Star Ticks. 

I have never, in 42 years of living, seen so many ticks in one day!

Every few seconds, I had to pull a crawling tick off of my pants or off of a child's legs. Yes..summer has arrived in Florida.  I posted a note about this on Facebook which led to a conversation about Florida bugs..and here I am.