Some of you know I like to go hiking at a place called Brooker Creek Headwaters Preserve. The headwaters are on my side in Hillsborough County. Across the border in Pinellas County, Brooker Creek Preserve continues and they have a nice educational center there with trails and such. Mom and I have gone there before for butterfly talks and I tagged Monarchs there years ago. Well, I follow them on Facebook and they were giving a talk about Swallow-Tailed Kites today. I marked "interested" since I wasn't sure I wanted to go. Yesterday, they posted they were going to have a real live Swallow-Tailed Kite and a Mississippi Kite there! So of course we went.
FYI, both of the birds can't fly so they help with education. Here's the Mississippi Kite, doing its best impersonation of our national bird.
And here's the Swallow-Tailed Kite, who could really put away the worms!
