Moving on with Part 2 of the visit to Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area. Continuing on through the prairie The slough Green Heron Red-shouldered Hawk Limpkin Turkey Vulture warming in the Sun Dragonfly in an obelisking pose to reduce its surface area in relation to the Sun in an attempt to cool off. Turkey Vulture in flight An American Alligator in the slough A large water control device between the lakes is a natural draw. Juvenile alligator Cypress dome. From […]

Categories: Nature • Tags: Agelaius phoeniceus, Alligator mississippiensis, American Alligator, Aramus guarauna, Buteo lineatus, Butorides virescens, Cathartes aura, Cypress Dome, Eastern Lubber Grasshopper, Elanoides forficatus, Eudocimus albus, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, FWC, Green Heron, Limpkin, Mimus polyglottos, Northern Mockingbird, Odocoileus virginianus, Pine Flatwood, Prairie, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-winged Blackbird, Romalea microptera, Swallow-tailed Kite, Three Lakes, Three Lakes Ranch, Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, Turkey Vulture, White Ibis, White-tailed Deer, WMA

Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area ( Three Lakes WMA) in Central Florida is a former ranch, the eponymous Three Lakes Ranch, comprising 63,000-acres that today protects one of the largest extant Florida dry prairie ecosystems. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Three Lakes WMA is “a mosaic of dry and wet prairie, ephemeral depression ponds and marshes, mesic (moist) flat woods, hammocks, and cypress ponds and sloughs. Diversity, both in plant and animal life, distinguishes Florida’s dry […]

Categories: Nature • Tags: Agelaius phoeniceus, Alligator mississippiensis, American Alligator, Aramus guarauna, Buteo lineatus, Butorides virescens, Cathartes aura, Cypress Dome, Eastern Lubber Grasshopper, Elanoides forficatus, Eudocimus albus, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, FWC, Green Heron, Limpkin, Mimus polyglottos, Northern Mockingbird, Odocoileus virginianus, Pine Flatwood, Prairie, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-winged Blackbird, Romalea microptera, Swallow-tailed Kite, Three Lakes, Three Lakes Ranch, Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, Turkey Vulture, White Ibis, White-tailed Deer, WMA