More at Carlos Avery

Well, the fact that we saw the Northern Harrier Hawk, it made us more determined to see if we can catch another glimpse of them. So we got up early today and got our coffee at the local Dunn Bros. and breakfast of champions at McDonalds. This time we went into the tour but going west from the Headquarters entrance. Going this direction the roads were much better that those on the eastern end of the WMA. Now if you have not been to Carlos Avery Wildlife Management, it is a just over 23,000 acres of pure habitat for great wildlife of deer, foxes and birds large and small. Just an update from that horrible fire set by the volunteer firefighter a while back, it has grown in and thriving even better. Better would it have been if it were from the result of a controlled burn from the DNR, but nature can take care of itself. We digress, the first set of birds we spotted were a White Egret, a Great Blue Heron and three Green Herons, two of which were hiding among the reeds.
For a while we took as many photos and then in the background in the canal behind us we heard some splashing and much to our surprise they were otters. Yes, we finally saw otters and got some photos, there was a pair of them. We thought after some time we should move on and that we did, we came across an Eastern Kingbird sitting on one of the sanctuary signs also had spotted a Song Sparrow and a Downy Woodpecker. As we went further Mike spotted what we believe is a Red Tail Hawk which flew up and and hung out in a tree for a bit before flying off.