1 00:00:01,566 --> 00:00:02,900 BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE 2 00:00:02,900 --> 00:00:04,433 IS KNOWN FOR ITS SPACIOUS WETLANDS 3 00:00:04,433 --> 00:00:06,166 THAT PROVIDE A HOME TO A WIDE VARIETY 4 00:00:06,166 --> 00:00:09,533 OF WADING BIRDS, ALLIGATORS, TURTLES AND FISH. 5 00:00:09,533 --> 00:00:13,100 JOIN US FOR THIS MIDWINTER VISIT TO SOUTH FLORIDA 6 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:14,700 NEXT ON NATURE SCENE. 7 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:18,566 A PRODUCTION OF: 8 00:00:21,233 --> 00:00:24,233 NATURE SCENE IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY A GRANT 9 00:00:24,233 --> 00:00:27,466 FROM SANTEE COOPER, WHERE PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT 10 00:00:27,466 --> 00:00:30,066 OF OUR ENVIRONMENT ARE EQUAL IN IMPORTANCE 11 00:00:30,066 --> 00:00:31,900 TO PROVIDING ELECTRIC ENERGY. 12 00:00:33,633 --> 00:00:35,966 ADDITIONAL FUNDING IS PROVIDED 13 00:00:35,966 --> 00:00:39,166 BY THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING 14 00:00:40,633 --> 00:00:42,633 AND BY VIEWERS LIKE YOU 15 00:00:42,633 --> 00:00:46,666 MEMBERS OF THE ETV ENDOWMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 16 00:00:53,366 --> 00:00:57,366 [Captioning sponsored by THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION] 17 00:01:49,233 --> 00:01:51,500 HELLO, AND WELCOME TO NATURE SCENE 18 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:52,966 FOR A MIDWINTER VISIT 19 00:01:52,966 --> 00:01:55,366 AT THE BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE 20 00:01:55,366 --> 00:01:56,833 NEAR NAPLES, FLORIDA. 21 00:01:56,833 --> 00:01:59,600 I'M JIM WELCH WITH NATURALIST RUDY MANCKE 22 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,666 AND, RUDY, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK 23 00:02:01,666 --> 00:02:03,566 FOR A GREAT DAY FOR BIRDING. 24 00:02:03,566 --> 00:02:05,966 I THINK THIS SHOULD BE A PERFECT TIME FOR BIRDS 25 00:02:05,966 --> 00:02:08,900 AND WE'RE RIGHT ON THE FLYWAY, THE MIGRATORY ROUTE SOUTH. 26 00:02:08,900 --> 00:02:11,100 SO THERE ARE PLENTY OF STOPPING PLACES HERE 27 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:12,800 AND I THINK WE'LL HAVE A GOOD DAY 28 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:13,900 SEEING SOME BIRDS 29 00:02:13,900 --> 00:02:15,666 THAT CAME FROM FARTHER NORTH, MAYBE 30 00:02:15,666 --> 00:02:18,000 AND ARE SPENDING TIME IN THIS PART OF FLORIDA. 31 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,566 PRETTY EXCITING PLACE, TOO, BECAUSE OF FRESHWATER 32 00:02:20,566 --> 00:02:22,866 I MEAN, IT'S ABUNDANT HERE, USUALLY, YEAR ROUND 33 00:02:22,866 --> 00:02:24,666 MORE IN THE SUMMER THAN IN THE WINTER 34 00:02:24,666 --> 00:02:26,966 BUT THERE WILL BE A LOT OF WATER, I THINK, HERE 35 00:02:26,966 --> 00:02:28,866 AND THAT'LL ATTRACT OTHER ANIMALS, TOO. 36 00:02:28,866 --> 00:02:31,100 MAYBE SOME OF THE REPTILES WILL BE OUT SUNNING 37 00:02:31,100 --> 00:02:32,566 BECAUSE THINGS ARE WARMING UP. 38 00:02:32,566 --> 00:02:34,966 BASICALLY, THIS AREA, THOUGH, IS INTRIGUING 39 00:02:34,966 --> 00:02:36,866 BECAUSE IT USED TO BE OCEAN FLOOR. 40 00:02:36,866 --> 00:02:39,266 LIMESTONE MATERIAL, REALLY, UNDER OUR FEET. 41 00:02:39,266 --> 00:02:42,500 ORGANIC MATERIAL BEGAN TO FORM AFTER THE OCEANS WENT AWAY 42 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:45,566 AND NOW WE SEE SOME REALLY, REALLY INTERESTING PLANTS. 43 00:02:45,566 --> 00:02:46,833 FLATNESS ALL AROUND US 44 00:02:46,833 --> 00:02:48,733 AND GREAT HABITATS, GREAT PLANTS. 45 00:02:48,733 --> 00:02:51,600 WELL, WHEN YOU SAY BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE 46 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,600 OF COURSE CYPRESS TREES COME TO MIND 47 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,366 AND THEY'RE ALL AROUND US HERE. 48 00:02:55,366 --> 00:02:57,366 THE COMMON ONE HERE IS POND CYPRESS. 49 00:02:57,366 --> 00:02:59,700 NEVER GETS AS LARGE AS THE BALD CYPRESSES 50 00:02:59,700 --> 00:03:01,000 THAT USED TO BE HERE. 51 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,533 MOST OF THEM HAVE BEEN CUT AND TAKEN AWAY. 52 00:03:03,533 --> 00:03:06,266 BUT POND CYPRESS IS TYPICAL OF THIS SITUATION 53 00:03:06,266 --> 00:03:08,333 A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA WATER HELPS. 54 00:03:08,333 --> 00:03:10,133 NO LEAVES ON THIS TIME OF YEAR 55 00:03:10,133 --> 00:03:12,233 BECAUSE THEY SHED ALL THEIR NEEDLES-- 56 00:03:12,233 --> 00:03:15,033 THE ONLY CONIFER IN THE SOUTHEAST THAT DOES THAT. 57 00:03:15,033 --> 00:03:17,133 AND THEN ALL THAT STUFF HANGING DOWN 58 00:03:17,133 --> 00:03:19,800 THAT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE LEAVES FROM A DISTANCE 59 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,466 ARE MALE CONES ON THAT TREE. 60 00:03:21,466 --> 00:03:23,500 IT IS ONE OF THE CONIFERS FOR SURE. 61 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:26,166 MOST OF THE VEGETATION AROUND US IS SAW GRASS. 62 00:03:26,166 --> 00:03:27,166 YEAH. 63 00:03:27,166 --> 00:03:28,166 SEDGES. 64 00:03:28,166 --> 00:03:29,466 YEAH, REALLY, A SEDGE. 65 00:03:29,466 --> 00:03:30,666 WE CALL IT A GRASS. 66 00:03:30,666 --> 00:03:33,066 IT DOES HAVE SAW... SHARP, JAGGED EDGES 67 00:03:33,066 --> 00:03:35,766 BUT THAT'S THE ONE THAT YOU ALWAYS ASSOCIATE 68 00:03:35,766 --> 00:03:36,966 WITH THE EVERGLADES 69 00:03:36,966 --> 00:03:39,233 AND BASICALLY, THIS IS A LITTLE PIECE 70 00:03:39,233 --> 00:03:40,633 OF THE EVERGLADES HERE 71 00:03:40,633 --> 00:03:42,700 WITH SOME OTHER HABITATS MIXED IN. 72 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:44,666 BUT THAT IS WIDESPREAD, DOMINANT 73 00:03:44,666 --> 00:03:47,766 AND, AGAIN, LOVES THESE LITTLE SHALLOW WATER AREAS 74 00:03:47,766 --> 00:03:49,033 ON TOP OF LIMESTONE. 75 00:03:49,033 --> 00:03:51,733 AND NOW, YOU MENTION BIRDS... 76 00:03:51,733 --> 00:03:53,100 LOOK AT THE WOOD STORK 77 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:55,900 RIGHT IN THE TOP OF THAT LITTLE POND CYPRESS. 78 00:03:55,900 --> 00:03:57,933 THAT'S A STRANGE- LOOKING ANIMAL. 79 00:03:57,933 --> 00:03:59,300 A BALD HEAD. 80 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:00,500 YEAH. 81 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:02,300 IN FACT, SOME CALL IT "IRONHEAD," REALLY. 82 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:03,300 BIG OLD BEAK. 83 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:04,366 IT'S THE ONLY TRUE STORK 84 00:04:04,366 --> 00:04:05,766 THAT WE'VE GOT IN NORTH AMERICA. 85 00:04:05,766 --> 00:04:07,833 AN INTERESTING ANIMAL, THOSE LONG, GANGLY LEGS 86 00:04:07,833 --> 00:04:09,366 AND YET PERCHED RIGHT UP IN THE TOP 87 00:04:09,366 --> 00:04:10,900 AS IF IT'S VERY MUCH AT HOME THERE. 88 00:04:10,900 --> 00:04:13,700 AND, OF COURSE, THEY NEST UP IN THE TOPS OF THESE CYPRESSES. 89 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:14,966 ONE OF THE WADING BIRDS. 90 00:04:14,966 --> 00:04:16,766 WE MIGHT SEE IT IN THE WATER LATER. 91 00:04:16,766 --> 00:04:17,900 OH, YEAH. 92 00:04:17,900 --> 00:04:19,866 LOOK AT THE CORMORANTS DOWN THERE, TOO. 93 00:04:19,866 --> 00:04:21,800 A FEW CORMORANTS RIGHT UP IN THE TOP 94 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,000 OF SOME MORE CYPRESSES. 95 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,633 DARKER BIRD, DOWN-CURVED BEAK. 96 00:04:24,633 --> 00:04:27,133 ONE OF THEM LOOKS LIKE IT'S PREENING UP THERE. 97 00:04:27,133 --> 00:04:29,133 A BIG OF A HOOK ON THE END OF THE BEAK THERE. 98 00:04:29,133 --> 00:04:31,333 YEAH; BOTH OF THOSE BIRDS, NOW, SAY STANDING WATER 99 00:04:31,333 --> 00:04:33,066 AND THERE IS PLENTY OF STANDING WATER HERE. 100 00:04:33,066 --> 00:04:34,433 WE'LL SEE THAT AS WE WALK. 101 00:04:34,433 --> 00:04:37,233 AND THEN ANOTHER BIRD THAT SPEAKS TO STANDING WATER. 102 00:04:37,233 --> 00:04:38,733 LOOK AT THE OSPREY DOWN THERE. 103 00:04:38,733 --> 00:04:40,733 THE FISH HAWK. THAT'S A DIVER. 104 00:04:40,733 --> 00:04:42,200 HE PLUNGES INTO THE WATER. 105 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,066 YEAH, REAL SHARP EDGE ON THE BEAK. 106 00:04:44,066 --> 00:04:45,066 CURVED DOWN. 107 00:04:45,066 --> 00:04:46,533 LOOKING AWAY FROM US THERE. 108 00:04:46,533 --> 00:04:47,800 A LOT OF WHITE ON IT. 109 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,166 SOMETIMES PEOPLE THINK OF THAT AS A BALD EAGLE. 110 00:04:50,166 --> 00:04:51,766 BUT OSPREY, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. 111 00:04:51,766 --> 00:04:53,133 OOH, AND MOVING AWAY. 112 00:04:53,133 --> 00:04:55,733 LOOK AT THE WINGSPAN ON THAT BIRD AS IT DROPS DOWN. 113 00:04:55,733 --> 00:04:57,166 ALREADY WE'VE SEEN THREE BIRDS 114 00:04:57,166 --> 00:04:58,866 AND ALL THREE HAVE DIFFERENT STYLES 115 00:04:58,866 --> 00:05:00,000 OF GETTING THEIR FOOD. 116 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,233 ABSOLUTELY. 117 00:05:01,233 --> 00:05:02,833 AND I THINK THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING. 118 00:05:02,833 --> 00:05:04,166 LET'S GET STARTED. 119 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:13,966 2,400 SQUARE MILES OF SAW GRASS MARSH 120 00:05:13,966 --> 00:05:16,766 AND WET PRAIRIE LOOKS AND STRANDS OF TREES 121 00:05:16,766 --> 00:05:18,833 AS WE COME THROUGH BIG CYPRESS. 122 00:05:18,833 --> 00:05:21,033 HIGHER GROUND, THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT 123 00:05:21,033 --> 00:05:22,566 AND THE FOREST TYPE CHANGES 124 00:05:22,566 --> 00:05:24,466 WHEN YOU'VE GOT A LITTLE ELEVATION 125 00:05:24,466 --> 00:05:26,333 AND A LITTLE MORE ORGANIC-RICH MATERIAL 126 00:05:26,333 --> 00:05:27,900 AND NOT QUITE AS MUCH WATER. 127 00:05:27,900 --> 00:05:29,833 THAT IS PALMETTO. NOW, IS THIS THE STATE...? 128 00:05:29,833 --> 00:05:31,433 IS THAT STATE TREE OF FLORIDA, RIGHT? 129 00:05:31,433 --> 00:05:32,900 THIS IS THE STATE TREE OF FLORIDA. 130 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:34,866 THE LARGEST LEAVES I GUESS WE COULD SEE HERE. 131 00:05:34,866 --> 00:05:36,033 LOOK AT THOSE LONG LEAVES. 132 00:05:36,033 --> 00:05:37,166 AND THE STEM ON THE LEAF 133 00:05:37,166 --> 00:05:38,700 DOESN'T HAVE ANY JAGGED EDGES AT ALL. 134 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:41,233 SCIENTIFIC NAME FOR THAT: SABLE PALMETTO. 135 00:05:41,233 --> 00:05:44,100 AND THAT GIVES IT THE COMMON NAME OF PALMETTO. 136 00:05:44,100 --> 00:05:46,466 THAT'S THE LARGER ONE HERE. 137 00:05:46,466 --> 00:05:48,766 UNDERNEATH, AND SCATTERED ALL OUT IN FRONT OF US-- 138 00:05:48,766 --> 00:05:50,766 THE SAW PALMETTO. 139 00:05:50,766 --> 00:05:55,466 AND THAT VERY RARELY HAS A TRUNK THAT GETS FAR ABOVE THE GROUND 140 00:05:55,466 --> 00:05:59,033 BUT YOU SEE THE FRONDS, THE LEAVES ARE SMALLER 141 00:05:59,033 --> 00:06:00,666 AND IF YOU LOOK CAREFULLY 142 00:06:00,666 --> 00:06:04,600 THERE IS A LITTLE OF A SAW-LIKE JAGGED EDGE ON SAW PALMETTO. 143 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,233 AND THEN THE OTHER TREE THAT DOMINATES HERE 144 00:06:07,233 --> 00:06:09,633 TALLER THAN ANYTHING ELSE-- SLASH PINE. 145 00:06:09,633 --> 00:06:11,566 AND THEY ARE INDEED SLASH PINES. 146 00:06:11,566 --> 00:06:13,600 PRETTY MUCH A MONOCULTURE OF PINE 147 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,500 IN TERMS OF THIS LARGE ACREAGE. 148 00:06:15,500 --> 00:06:17,600 YEAH. AND I SEE UNDERNEATH, UNDERSTORY. 149 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:19,700 WAX MYRTLE HERE, JUST SCATTERED ALONG 150 00:06:19,700 --> 00:06:21,300 WITH A LITTLE BIT OF FRUIT ON IT 151 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:23,200 YOU CAN SEE SCATTERED HERE AND THERE. 152 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,100 TYPICAL HIGHER GROUND AREAS. 153 00:06:25,100 --> 00:06:27,833 BUT I NOTICED SOMETHING AS WE WALKED UP-- 154 00:06:27,833 --> 00:06:29,933 THIS IS A SIGN THAT WATER LEVELS 155 00:06:29,933 --> 00:06:31,766 HAVE BEEN HIGHER IN THE PAST 156 00:06:31,766 --> 00:06:35,333 BECAUSE HERE ARE SOME INTERESTING FRESHWATER SNAILS. 157 00:06:35,333 --> 00:06:36,566 RUDY, THAT APPLE SNAIL 158 00:06:36,566 --> 00:06:38,766 IS SO IMPORTANT TO THE DIET OF THE KITE. 159 00:06:38,766 --> 00:06:41,600 YEAH, THE EVERGLADES KITE FEEDS EXCLUSIVELY ON THIS 160 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:43,533 AND THE LIMPKIN FEEDS ON THIS A LOT. 161 00:06:43,533 --> 00:06:45,166 TWO BIRDS THAT ARE FOUND HERE. 162 00:06:45,166 --> 00:06:46,333 INTERESTING SNAILS. 163 00:06:46,333 --> 00:06:48,466 DOES HAVE STRIPES ON IT WHEN IT'S YOUNG. 164 00:06:48,466 --> 00:06:50,466 YOU SEE THEM VERY CLEARLY. SEE THAT? 165 00:06:50,466 --> 00:06:51,700 MM-HMM. 166 00:06:51,700 --> 00:06:53,166 AND THEN TWIST IT ON AROUND 167 00:06:53,166 --> 00:06:54,766 AND YOU CAN KIND OF LOOK DOWN 168 00:06:54,766 --> 00:06:56,333 IN THE THROAT OF THIS THING. 169 00:06:56,333 --> 00:06:57,466 ONE OF THE UNIVALVES. 170 00:06:57,466 --> 00:06:59,133 ONE OF THE FRESHWATER SNAILS 171 00:06:59,133 --> 00:07:01,266 THAT REALLY, REALLY IS ABUNDANT HERE 172 00:07:01,266 --> 00:07:03,433 AND THEY START OFF SMALL AND GET TO BE-- 173 00:07:03,433 --> 00:07:05,066 LOOK AT THIS-- FAIRLY LARGE. 174 00:07:05,066 --> 00:07:06,333 THAT IS A NEAT ANIMAL. 175 00:07:06,333 --> 00:07:07,966 AND DEPENDENT ON THE WATER. 176 00:07:07,966 --> 00:07:09,900 YEAH, AN INTERESTING QUESTION-- 177 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:12,533 WHERE DOES THE CALCIUM CARBONATE COME FROM 178 00:07:12,533 --> 00:07:14,366 THAT THE SHELL IS MADE OUT OF? 179 00:07:14,366 --> 00:07:16,433 WELL, IT COMES FROM THE LIMESTONE-- 180 00:07:16,433 --> 00:07:18,400 THAT'S CALCIUM CARBONATE, RIGHT?-- 181 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:20,066 THAT FORMED ON OCEAN FLOOR 182 00:07:20,066 --> 00:07:22,833 AND NOW THIS ANIMAL HAS GOTTEN THAT MATERIAL 183 00:07:22,833 --> 00:07:24,566 AND MADE A SHELL OUT OF IT. 184 00:07:24,566 --> 00:07:26,066 I LOVE THIS ONE. 185 00:07:26,066 --> 00:07:27,300 AND WHAT'S THAT ONE? 186 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:29,766 COMMON NAME FOR THIS IS RAMSHORN SNAIL. 187 00:07:29,766 --> 00:07:31,566 I THINK THAT MAKES GOOD SENSE. 188 00:07:31,566 --> 00:07:32,800 LOOK AT THAT. 189 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:35,300 LOOK AT THE SHAPE OF THAT-- LIKE A RAMSHORN. 190 00:07:35,300 --> 00:07:37,366 AND BOTH OF THEM, VERY, VERY COMMON 191 00:07:37,366 --> 00:07:39,566 IN FRESHWATER SITUATIONS RIGHT HERE. 192 00:07:39,566 --> 00:07:41,066 AND A PERFECT PLACE TO FIND THE SNAILS 193 00:07:41,066 --> 00:07:43,066 RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF THIS MARSH AND VERY WET AREA. 194 00:07:43,066 --> 00:07:45,600 I GUESS THOSE TALLER CYPRESS BEHIND US. 195 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:48,000 YEAH, THOSE ARE CYPRESSES OVER THERE. 196 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,800 AGAIN, THE POND CYPRESS NEVER GETTING LARGE 197 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:52,533 BUT BIG CYPRESS, NOW, GETS THE NAME 198 00:07:52,533 --> 00:07:55,333 NOT BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF THE TREES THAT ARE HERE TODAY 199 00:07:55,333 --> 00:07:57,433 BUT BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A BIG PRESERVE HERE. 200 00:07:57,433 --> 00:07:58,900 WELL, PRESERVED 728,000 ACRES 201 00:07:58,900 --> 00:08:01,366 AND WHAT A JOB IT WAS TO PULL IT ALL TOGETHER. 202 00:08:01,366 --> 00:08:03,300 LOOK OUT IN THE MARSH THERE. LOOK OUT IN THE MARSH! 203 00:08:03,300 --> 00:08:05,200 WAY OUT THERE, AND THOSE ARE ROSEATE SPOONBILLS. 204 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:06,200 I KNOW IT. 205 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:07,266 THE PINK! PINK! 206 00:08:07,266 --> 00:08:09,266 LOOK AT 'EM. GET THE GLASSES UP. 207 00:08:09,266 --> 00:08:11,366 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT SPOON-SHAPED BILL... 208 00:08:11,366 --> 00:08:13,566 AND THAT EXTRA RED RIGHT ON THE SHOULDERS. 209 00:08:13,566 --> 00:08:15,000 LOOK AT THAT BIRD OUT THERE! 210 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,833 IT'S RARE TO SEE A PINK BIRD ANYWHERE... 211 00:08:16,833 --> 00:08:17,900 YEAH! 212 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:19,366 BUT HERE WE'VE GOT A NICE RED WASH 213 00:08:19,366 --> 00:08:20,400 ON THE WINGS, AS WELL. 214 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:21,466 OH, YEAH. 215 00:08:21,466 --> 00:08:22,866 I SEE A FEW WHITE IBISES, I THINK 216 00:08:22,866 --> 00:08:24,066 WORKING AROUND BEHIND THEM 217 00:08:24,066 --> 00:08:25,900 HOPEFULLY, WE CAN GET A LITTLE CLOSER LOOK 218 00:08:25,900 --> 00:08:26,933 AT THE WHITE IBISES. 219 00:08:26,933 --> 00:08:28,166 BUT ROSEATE SPOONBILLS, CLEARLY. 220 00:08:28,166 --> 00:08:29,533 COUPLE OF THEM OFF IN THE DISTANCE 221 00:08:29,533 --> 00:08:30,633 JUST MOVING THEIR BEAKS 222 00:08:30,633 --> 00:08:32,066 SIDE TO SIDE. YEAH. SIDE TO SIDE... 223 00:08:32,066 --> 00:08:34,733 TRYING TO GET INVERTEBRATES OUT OF THE GOO OUT THERE. 224 00:08:34,733 --> 00:08:36,800 GOSH, THAT IS A BEAUTIFUL BIRD. 225 00:08:46,733 --> 00:08:48,166 IT'S A LITTLE WETTER HERE 226 00:08:48,166 --> 00:08:49,800 ALONG THE TURNER RIVER CANAL 227 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:53,100 AND, AGAIN, WILL GIVE US A CHANCE TO SEE MORE OF THE BIRDS. 228 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:55,800 WELL OVER 300 ON THE LIST HERE AT THE PRESERVE. 229 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,300 YEAH, WATER REALLY, REALLY 230 00:08:57,300 --> 00:09:00,300 DOES MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD AND, UH... 231 00:09:00,300 --> 00:09:02,366 THIS IS A MAN-MADE CANAL, OF COURSE 232 00:09:02,366 --> 00:09:03,900 BUT IT'S FILLING WITH LOTS 233 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:05,900 OF INTERESTING PLANT MATERIAL, TOO. 234 00:09:05,900 --> 00:09:08,200 OF COURSE, CATTAILS, I SEE. 235 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,266 CATTAILS-- YEAH, YEAH, EVERYWHERE HERE 236 00:09:10,266 --> 00:09:11,800 AND A FEW INTERESTING TREES. 237 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,666 KIND OF STRANGE ONES ON THE SIDE. 238 00:09:13,666 --> 00:09:16,300 I SEE FRUIT ALREADY ON THE RED MAPLE UP THERE. 239 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:17,500 BRIGHT RED IN COLOR. 240 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:19,366 AND WILLOWS SCATTERED AROUND 241 00:09:19,366 --> 00:09:21,700 AND A FEW MORE OF THOSE CYPRESSES. 242 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:22,966 WELL, NOW, LOOK AT THIS-- 243 00:09:22,966 --> 00:09:24,200 YOU GET SUNLIGHT UP HERE 244 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,100 AND THERE ARE THE TURTLES OUT SUNNING. 245 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:27,466 RUDY, WHAT KIND IS IT? 246 00:09:27,466 --> 00:09:29,900 LOOKS LIKE THE FLORIDA RED-BELLIED TURTLE TO ME, JIM 247 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:32,566 BECAUSE OF THAT REDDISH ON THE UNDERSIDE OF THE SHELL 248 00:09:32,566 --> 00:09:35,200 AND A LITTLE BIT OF RED ON THE TOP PART OF THE SHELL. 249 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,766 DOMED UP, TOO, BUT JUST WARMING UP IN THE SUNLIGHT. 250 00:09:37,766 --> 00:09:40,400 ON THAT LIMESTONE, I GUESS HE CRAWLS OUT OF THE WATER 251 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,300 BECAUSE OF ALGAE PROBLEMS ON OCCASION. 252 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:44,066 GETS RID OF PARASITES UP THERE, TOO. 253 00:09:44,066 --> 00:09:46,566 IF HE CAN DRY OUT, MAYBE THE LEECHES WILL DROP OFF. 254 00:09:46,566 --> 00:09:48,866 AND LOOK WHAT HE DOES, DROPPING INTO THE WATER 255 00:09:48,866 --> 00:09:50,766 ONCE HE SEES US OR HEARS US OVER HERE. 256 00:09:50,766 --> 00:09:54,133 ANOTHER ONE OF THE REPTILES OUT IN THE SUN-- ALLIGATOR. 257 00:09:54,133 --> 00:09:55,366 THE SMALL ALLIGATORS. 258 00:09:55,366 --> 00:09:57,500 WE'VE GOT, I'M SURE, ALLIGATORS OF ALL SIZES 259 00:09:57,500 --> 00:09:58,500 HERE IN THE SWAMP. 260 00:09:58,500 --> 00:09:59,900 YEAH, THEY'RE DOING GREAT. 261 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:02,866 AND THIS STANDING WATER IN THE CANAL WITH LOTS OF FISH 262 00:10:02,866 --> 00:10:04,400 PERFECT SITUATION FOR THEM. 263 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,666 AND THEY'LL TAKE BIRDS AND OTHER THINGS. 264 00:10:06,666 --> 00:10:10,466 MAYBE LIKE THAT MOORHEN THAT'S COMING DOWN THE WAY. 265 00:10:10,466 --> 00:10:11,566 ORANGE ON THE BEAK. 266 00:10:11,566 --> 00:10:13,166 OLD NAME IS COMMON GALLINULE 267 00:10:13,166 --> 00:10:15,966 BUT MOORHEN IS THE NAME THAT IT'S KNOWN AS NOW. 268 00:10:15,966 --> 00:10:17,800 AND THE MOORHEN'S RATHER COMMON 269 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:19,400 ALONG WATER AREAS LIKE THIS. 270 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,400 ABSOLUTELY. FEEDING ON PLANT MATERIAL IN THE WATER. 271 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,233 I SEE ANOTHER ONE OVER THERE 272 00:10:24,233 --> 00:10:26,833 THAT JUST DOES NOT TO BE SEEN, I GUESS. 273 00:10:26,833 --> 00:10:27,933 FROZEN IN PLACE. 274 00:10:27,933 --> 00:10:29,100 GREAT BLUE HERON. 275 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:31,100 LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT BIRD. 276 00:10:31,100 --> 00:10:33,500 THE LARGEST BIRD... I GUESS THE TALLEST... 277 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:36,133 ONE OF THE TALLEST WE WOULD SEE IN THE SWAMP. 278 00:10:36,133 --> 00:10:37,266 OH, YEAH. 279 00:10:37,266 --> 00:10:39,300 THAT LONG BEAK, NOW, GETS FROGS OR FISH 280 00:10:39,300 --> 00:10:41,766 OR SMALL SNAKES AND EVEN OTHER BIRDS SOMETIMES 281 00:10:41,766 --> 00:10:44,266 AND CHANGES THEM INTO... INTO GREAT BLUE HERON. 282 00:10:44,266 --> 00:10:45,666 BUT HARDLY MOVING. 283 00:10:45,666 --> 00:10:48,133 THAT FREEZING PATTERN IS PART OF A STYLE OF HUNTING. 284 00:10:48,133 --> 00:10:49,233 OH, YEAH. ABSOLUTELY. 285 00:10:49,233 --> 00:10:50,600 AND BLENDING IN, TOO, NOW 286 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,333 WHEN A PREDATOR SHOWS UP LIKE US. 287 00:10:52,333 --> 00:10:53,533 DOWN THE WAY, TOO 288 00:10:53,533 --> 00:10:55,600 I THINK THOSE ARE YELLOW LEGS DOWN THERE. 289 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:56,766 LOOK AT THOSE BIRDS. 290 00:10:56,766 --> 00:10:57,766 A GROUP OF THEM. 291 00:10:57,766 --> 00:10:59,733 OH, YES, THAT LIGHTISH BROWN. 292 00:10:59,733 --> 00:11:03,666 THEY'RE HARD TO TELL AMONG SOME OF THE OTHER WADING BIRDS. 293 00:11:03,666 --> 00:11:05,100 YELLOW LEGS. YEAH, YELLOW LEGS. 294 00:11:05,100 --> 00:11:06,233 YEAH, THAT'S A NEAT ONE. 295 00:11:06,233 --> 00:11:07,700 THAT'S A PRETTY COMMON ONE HERE. 296 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:09,833 I KEEP HEARING SOMETHING. WHAT IS THAT? 297 00:11:09,833 --> 00:11:11,633 OH, LOOK AT THIS... LITTLE, UH... 298 00:11:11,633 --> 00:11:12,733 MOORHEN? 299 00:11:12,733 --> 00:11:14,933 MOORHEN COMING IN. A LITTLE FUZZBALL. 300 00:11:14,933 --> 00:11:17,566 MAYBE A FEW WEEKS; MAYBE A MONTH AT THE MOST. 301 00:11:17,566 --> 00:11:18,566 OH, MY GOODNESS. 302 00:11:18,566 --> 00:11:20,033 LOOK AT THAT SMALL ANIMAL 303 00:11:20,033 --> 00:11:21,666 AND MAKING A PEEPING SOUND. 304 00:11:21,666 --> 00:11:24,966 I GUESS TRYING TO ATTRACT ONE OF THE PARENTS TO FEED IT. 305 00:11:24,966 --> 00:11:27,766 THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT THAT LITTLE BIRD IS SAYING: 306 00:11:27,766 --> 00:11:29,400 "FEED ME, FEED ME, FEED ME." 307 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,633 THAT'S A TREAT HERE IN THE SWAMP TO SEE THAT. 308 00:11:31,633 --> 00:11:33,733 YEAH, I'M SURPRISED THIS EARLY IN THE YEAR 309 00:11:33,733 --> 00:11:35,700 AND GETTING OVER BY ONE OF THE PARENTS. 310 00:11:35,700 --> 00:11:37,300 AW, THAT'S NEAT TO SEE THE ADULT 311 00:11:37,300 --> 00:11:38,933 AND THEN THE VERY, VERY YOUNG ONE 312 00:11:38,933 --> 00:11:40,633 FIGURING THE YOUNG ONE WILL END UP 313 00:11:40,633 --> 00:11:42,333 LOOKING LIKE THE ADULT EVENTUALLY. 314 00:11:42,333 --> 00:11:43,466 THAT IS A NEAT ANIMAL. 315 00:11:43,466 --> 00:11:45,033 ANHINGA, OVER THERE, TOO. 316 00:11:45,033 --> 00:11:47,533 NOW HERE'S ONE THAT YOU ALWAYS ASSOCIATE 317 00:11:47,533 --> 00:11:50,000 WITH DITCHES LIKE THIS FILLED WITH FISH. 318 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,466 "SNAKEBIRD" ANOTHER NAME. 319 00:11:51,466 --> 00:11:53,466 LONG, SNAKELIKE NECK, LONG BEAK. 320 00:11:53,466 --> 00:11:54,600 AND A SEX DIFFERENCE 321 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:56,300 IN TERMS OF THE COLOR PATTERNS. 322 00:11:56,300 --> 00:11:57,900 YEAH, THE FEMALE IS THAT ONE 323 00:11:57,900 --> 00:11:59,533 THAT'S GOT BROWN ON THE NECK 324 00:11:59,533 --> 00:12:01,200 AND ON UP TOWARD THE HEAD. 325 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,233 AGAIN, KIND OF WARMING UP IN THE SUN 326 00:12:03,233 --> 00:12:04,433 BUT ALSO DRYING OUT. 327 00:12:04,433 --> 00:12:06,100 ANHINGAS GET OUT OF THE WATER 328 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:08,500 TO GET RID OF WATER THAT GETS ON THE BODY 329 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:09,900 'CAUSE THEY SWIM A LOT. 330 00:12:09,900 --> 00:12:11,966 NOW, IS THIS A MALE OVER HERE ON THE OTHER SIDE? 331 00:12:11,966 --> 00:12:13,966 UH, THAT... YEAH. THAT'S THE MALE. 332 00:12:13,966 --> 00:12:14,966 YOU SEE ALL DARK? 333 00:12:14,966 --> 00:12:16,666 VERY, VERY BLACK ON THE NECK. 334 00:12:16,666 --> 00:12:19,100 WELL, A LITTLE BIT OF WHITE FEATHERS, TOO 335 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:21,000 BUT BASICALLY BLACK ON THE NECK. 336 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,900 AND A LITTLE BIT OF BLUISH COLOR AROUND THE EYES. 337 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:27,300 THAT ONE'S IN BREEDING PLUMAGE NOW, NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. 338 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:29,366 BUT THAT IS A NEAT ANIMAL UP THERE. 339 00:12:29,366 --> 00:12:30,833 NOW HERE'S ANOTHER ONE-- 340 00:12:30,833 --> 00:12:33,100 ON THE BRANCH STICKING OUT THE WATER-- 341 00:12:33,100 --> 00:12:34,733 SEE THE TRICOLORED HERON? 342 00:12:34,733 --> 00:12:37,466 OH, YEAH-- OLD NAME LOUISIANA HERON? 343 00:12:37,466 --> 00:12:41,633 RIGHT. SNEAKING DOWN, LOOKS LIKE HE'S GETTING READY TO GRAB A FISH 344 00:12:41,633 --> 00:12:44,633 AND THE FISH IS WIGGLING IN ITS BEAK OUT THERE. 345 00:12:44,633 --> 00:12:47,700 AND AGAIN, CHANGING FISH INTO TRICOLORED HERON. 346 00:12:47,700 --> 00:12:48,833 GOSH, THAT'S NEAT. 347 00:12:48,833 --> 00:12:50,266 THERE'S SO MANY ANIMALS RIGHT HERE. 348 00:12:50,266 --> 00:12:52,500 THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS PLACE ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. 349 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:54,433 I SEE A LITTLE BLUE HERON OVER THERE, TOO. 350 00:12:54,433 --> 00:12:55,633 OH, YEAH. 351 00:12:55,633 --> 00:12:56,800 LITTLE BLUE. 352 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:58,266 SOLID COLOR BLUE. 353 00:12:58,266 --> 00:13:01,766 MM-HMM. LITTLE BIT OF REDDISH TINGE ON THE NECK SOMETIMES 354 00:13:01,766 --> 00:13:03,233 BUT BASICALLY ONE COLOR 355 00:13:03,233 --> 00:13:05,233 AND, UH... BE FINDING PLENTY OF FOOD 356 00:13:05,233 --> 00:13:06,766 RIGHT ALONG THE CANAL HERE. 357 00:13:06,766 --> 00:13:08,100 NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. 358 00:13:08,100 --> 00:13:10,366 NOW, THE VERY YOUNG LITTLE BLUE WOULD BE ALL WHITE. 359 00:13:10,366 --> 00:13:12,266 WELL, THERE'S ONE RIGHT OVER THERE. 360 00:13:12,266 --> 00:13:13,600 OH, YEAH. 361 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,633 THERE IS AN IMMATURE LITTLE BLUE HERON. 362 00:13:15,633 --> 00:13:17,300 GREENISH LEGS... 363 00:13:17,300 --> 00:13:19,533 AND NOTICE THE BEAK HAS THAT DARK END ON IT. 364 00:13:19,533 --> 00:13:20,566 TWO COLOR. 365 00:13:20,566 --> 00:13:21,866 YEAH, YEAH, AND THAT'S TYPICAL. 366 00:13:21,866 --> 00:13:23,000 BUT WHITE EVERYWHERE ELSE. 367 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,266 IT IS KIND OF CONFUSING 368 00:13:24,266 --> 00:13:25,966 BECAUSE THERE ARE OTHER WHITE BIRDS OUT THERE 369 00:13:25,966 --> 00:13:28,400 THE ONE THAT'S THE MOST SHOWY RIGHT NOW 370 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:29,933 IS THE SNOWY EGRET. 371 00:13:29,933 --> 00:13:32,900 WHICH, DID YOU SEE THE ONE OUT OF THE WATER THERE? 372 00:13:32,900 --> 00:13:35,466 YOU CAN SEE THE YELLOW OR GOLDEN COLOR FEET 373 00:13:35,466 --> 00:13:37,133 BLACK LEGS. 374 00:13:37,133 --> 00:13:38,733 "GOLDEN SLIPPERS" THE OTHER NAME. 375 00:13:38,733 --> 00:13:41,166 AND THAT'S BREEDING PLUMAGE THIS TIME OF YEAR. 376 00:13:41,166 --> 00:13:42,700 OH, MAN-- OUT OF THE WATER 377 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:44,300 THE WIND BLOWING IT A LITTLE BIT. 378 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:47,200 LOOK AT THE BREEDING PLUMAGE-- FEATHERS ON THAT THING. 379 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,333 THAT IS REALLY SPECTACULAR, THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT. 380 00:13:50,333 --> 00:13:54,733 STANDING HERE IN ONE SPOT AND SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS TO SEE. 381 00:13:54,733 --> 00:13:57,233 YOU JUST GOT TO SLOW DOWN AND LOOK. 382 00:13:57,233 --> 00:13:59,633 I SAW A KINGFISHER COME IN. LOOK RIGHT THERE. 383 00:13:59,633 --> 00:14:02,100 FEMALE NOW, BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK ON THE BREAST 384 00:14:02,100 --> 00:14:05,200 THERE'S A BLUE BAND AND THEN THERE'S A BROWN ONE BELOW IT. 385 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,000 REALLY, I GUESS I SHOULD SAY THOSE ARE BELTS, RIGHT? 386 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,033 BECAUSE THAT IS THE BELTED KINGFISHER. 387 00:14:10,033 --> 00:14:11,833 THE FEMALE HAS THE BROWN BAND. 388 00:14:11,833 --> 00:14:13,700 THE MALE DOES NOT. NEAT ANIMAL. 389 00:14:13,700 --> 00:14:16,733 ANOTHER BIRD OVER HERE, THE GREEN-BACKED HERON. 390 00:14:16,733 --> 00:14:18,233 LOOK AT THAT THING. 391 00:14:18,233 --> 00:14:20,066 IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A VERY LONG NECK 392 00:14:20,066 --> 00:14:22,666 BUT IT'S GOT A LONG NECK; FROZEN IN POSITION THERE. 393 00:14:22,666 --> 00:14:24,233 WELL, MOVING A LITTLE BIT. 394 00:14:24,233 --> 00:14:25,733 YEAH, DOWN THE BRANCH. 395 00:14:25,733 --> 00:14:27,400 SNEAKING A LITTLE BIT DOWN. 396 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,700 YEAH, YOU CAN SEE THE LEGS A LITTLE BIT. 397 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:32,733 GETTING CLOSER TO THE WATER, I IMAGINE, SO HE CAN GRAB FISH. 398 00:14:32,733 --> 00:14:35,233 LATE JANUARY, WINTER DAY, BUT IT'S WARMING UP HERE 399 00:14:35,233 --> 00:14:37,966 AND ALSO, WHERE THE PLAINS IN AND OUT, IT'S EASY TO KNOW 400 00:14:37,966 --> 00:14:40,400 WE'RE BETWEEN TWO BIG CITIES-- NAPLES AND MIAMI. 401 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,200 AND A GREAT VARIETY OF ANIMALS ARE HERE ANYWAY 402 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,233 NO MATTER WHAT HUMANS ARE DOING, AND THAT'S NICE. 403 00:14:46,233 --> 00:14:48,066 IT'S FRAGILE, A VERY FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT. 404 00:14:48,066 --> 00:14:50,233 WELL, IT'S AN AREA THAT CAN BE CHANGED 405 00:14:50,233 --> 00:14:52,066 DRASTICALLY BY HUMAN ACTIVITY. 406 00:14:52,066 --> 00:14:54,666 THANK GOODNESS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO PROTECT IT. 407 00:14:54,666 --> 00:14:57,333 AND NOT ONLY LOW AREAS LIKE THIS WHERE THERE'S WATER. 408 00:14:57,333 --> 00:14:59,333 HIGHER AREAS ARE INTERESTING, TOO. 409 00:14:59,333 --> 00:15:01,900 WE WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT A HARDWOOD HAMMOCK NEXT. 410 00:15:08,566 --> 00:15:10,866 IT IS DARKER BACK HERE IN THE HAMMOCK 411 00:15:10,866 --> 00:15:14,900 BUT THIS TRAIL GIVES US A GOOD CHANCE TO GET INSIDE OF A HAMMOCK. 412 00:15:14,900 --> 00:15:16,933 YEAH, AND THIS IS A MIXED HARDWOOD HAMMOCK 413 00:15:16,933 --> 00:15:19,733 SO THERE ARE QUITE A FEW INTERESTING PLANTS HERE, AND... 414 00:15:19,733 --> 00:15:22,300 IN FACT, IN FACT, RUDY, IT'S CALLED 415 00:15:22,300 --> 00:15:24,466 "THE TREE SNAIL NATURE TRAIL" 416 00:15:24,466 --> 00:15:26,333 AND LOOK WHAT I FOUND 417 00:15:26,333 --> 00:15:29,500 AND THEY COME IN OVER 50 DIFFERENT PATTERNS. 418 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:31,033 THESE ARE ALL REPRESENTATIVES 419 00:15:31,033 --> 00:15:33,133 OF THE FLORIDA BANDED TREE SNAIL, JIM. 420 00:15:33,133 --> 00:15:35,600 PRETTY COMMON HERE, REALLY, BUT PROBABLY, YOU KNOW 421 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,233 A CUBAN SPECIES THAT ARRIVED HERE BECAUSE OF HURRICANES. 422 00:15:38,233 --> 00:15:39,733 MM-HMM. 423 00:15:39,733 --> 00:15:42,166 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT SOME OF THEM ARE BANDED 424 00:15:42,166 --> 00:15:45,000 AND SOME OF THEM REALLY DON'T HAVE MANY BANDS AT ALL 425 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,733 BUT THAT'S NEAT, ISN'T IT? 426 00:15:46,733 --> 00:15:48,700 ANOTHER ONE OF THE... UH, UNIVALVES 427 00:15:48,700 --> 00:15:50,400 ONE OF THE GASTROPODS. 428 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,133 LOOK AT THE... LOOK AT THE MARKINGS ON THAT THING 429 00:15:53,133 --> 00:15:55,666 AND THE BIG OPENING FOR THE BODY TO SLIP OUT. 430 00:15:55,666 --> 00:15:58,566 FEEDING ON FUNGI, MAINLY; CLIMBING UP SIDES OF TREES 431 00:15:58,566 --> 00:16:00,700 AND OFTENTIMES, WHEN THE WEATHER'S DRY 432 00:16:00,700 --> 00:16:03,866 JUST FREEZING IN POSITION AND NOT REALLY MOVING AT ALL. 433 00:16:03,866 --> 00:16:06,633 BUT FLORIDA BANDED TREE SNAIL IS THE COMMON NAME. 434 00:16:06,633 --> 00:16:09,200 SOME OF THEM DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY BANDS AT ALL. 435 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,366 BUT THAT'LL SHOW YOU A PRETTY GOOD BIT OF THE VARIATION. 436 00:16:12,366 --> 00:16:14,466 OF COURSE, LIKE EVERYTHING IN A NATIONAL PRESERVE 437 00:16:14,466 --> 00:16:16,233 THEY ARE PROTECTED, SO WE'LL LEAVE THEM. 438 00:16:16,233 --> 00:16:19,500 ABSOLUTELY, AND WHEN YOU FIND A NUMBER OF THOSE DOWN ON THE GROUND 439 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:22,266 YOU SHOULD FIND THINGS OVERHEAD, AND LOOK RIGHT UP HERE 440 00:16:22,266 --> 00:16:24,066 HANGING DOWN RIGHT ABOVE US. 441 00:16:24,066 --> 00:16:26,400 AND LOOK AT THE BANDS ON THAT ONE, NOW. 442 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,133 AGAIN, BANDED TREE SNAIL 443 00:16:28,133 --> 00:16:30,500 IS A PRETTY GOOD COMMON NAME FOR THAT. 444 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:32,966 FROZEN IN PLACE NOW, PROBABLY CLOSED IN 445 00:16:32,966 --> 00:16:35,966 BECAUSE IT'S GETTING A LITTLE DRIER, BUT, UH... 446 00:16:35,966 --> 00:16:38,233 ESTIVATING-- THAT'S THE TERM FOR IT. 447 00:16:38,233 --> 00:16:40,000 THEY'RE NOT VERY ACTIVE 448 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,800 BUT LOOK AT THE MARKINGS ON THAT ONE THERE. 449 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:44,566 HERE'S ANOTHER ONE OVER HERE, RUDY 450 00:16:44,566 --> 00:16:46,233 A DIFFERENT ONE ALTOGETHER. 451 00:16:46,233 --> 00:16:49,233 YEAH, WELL, REALLY, SEE, IT'S THE SAME SPECIES, BUT ITS VARIATION... 452 00:16:49,233 --> 00:16:51,066 LIGUUS IS THE GENUS NAME 453 00:16:51,066 --> 00:16:52,966 AND UH, INTERESTING LITTLE ANIMAL. 454 00:16:52,966 --> 00:16:55,333 AGAIN, MAYBE NOT AS DARKLY BANDED AS THE OTHERS 455 00:16:55,333 --> 00:16:57,600 BUT YOU CAN SEE SOME BANDING ON THAT ONE, TOO 456 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,833 AND THAT'S A LARGER INDIVIDUAL HANGING ON THE SIDE OF THAT TREE 457 00:17:00,833 --> 00:17:02,866 AND REALLY, YOU LOOK OVER HERE... 458 00:17:02,866 --> 00:17:05,533 I MEAN, ALL AROUND US, SOME OF THEM REALLY HAVE 459 00:17:05,533 --> 00:17:07,466 VERY LITTLE BANDING ON THEM AT ALL 460 00:17:07,466 --> 00:17:09,433 BUT A LOT OF VARIATION, AND AGAIN 461 00:17:09,433 --> 00:17:11,966 SPECIES THAT PROBABLY CAME FROM THE WEST INDIES 462 00:17:11,966 --> 00:17:13,633 REALLY FROM CUBA. 463 00:17:13,633 --> 00:17:15,966 AND NEED PROTECTION, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PLANTS AROUND US? 464 00:17:15,966 --> 00:17:17,633 SEVERAL HARDWOODS, AS YOU SAID. 465 00:17:17,633 --> 00:17:20,400 MOST OF THE PLANTS THAT ARE HERE ARE WEST INDIAN SPECIES. 466 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,566 THE ONE UP THERE WITH THE PEELY BARK ON IT 467 00:17:22,566 --> 00:17:24,733 THE REDDISH BARK THAT'S STRIPPING AWAY... 468 00:17:24,733 --> 00:17:26,233 GUMBO-LIMBO. 469 00:17:26,233 --> 00:17:28,033 GUMBO-LIMBO IS THE COMMON NAME FOR THAT 470 00:17:28,033 --> 00:17:30,433 WEST INDIES AND HERE IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA. 471 00:17:30,433 --> 00:17:33,400 IT GETS ABOUT HALFWAY UP THE PENINSULA OF FLORIDA. 472 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,066 USED MEDICINALLY. 473 00:17:35,066 --> 00:17:38,400 YOU KNOW, THE RESINS IN THAT PLANT ARE USED MEDICINALLY. 474 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:41,366 AND SOME HAVE ACTUALLY CALLED IT THE "TOURIST TREE" 475 00:17:41,366 --> 00:17:42,933 BECAUSE OF THE SUNBURNED 476 00:17:42,933 --> 00:17:45,066 PEELY SKIN, IT LOOKS LIKE ON IT. 477 00:17:45,066 --> 00:17:47,066 AND THE REDDISH COLOR, HUH? 478 00:17:47,066 --> 00:17:50,500 ANOTHER ONE DOWN HERE-- WILD COFFEE THAT'S WIDESPREAD. 479 00:17:50,500 --> 00:17:54,733 I MEAN, THAT'S ONE YOU EXPECT TO SEE HERE; THOSE ODD-LOOKING LEAVES ON IT 480 00:17:54,733 --> 00:17:57,233 AND, UH, ANOTHER ONE, A COCOPLUM, IT'S CALLED. 481 00:17:57,233 --> 00:17:59,100 IT'S A MEMBER OF THE ROSE FAMILY. 482 00:17:59,100 --> 00:18:02,066 THE FRUIT ON THAT THING IS ACTUALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, EDIBLE. 483 00:18:02,066 --> 00:18:03,900 I DON'T SEE FRUIT RIGHT NOW 484 00:18:03,900 --> 00:18:06,233 BUT IT IS EDIBLE FRUIT ON IT. 485 00:18:06,233 --> 00:18:08,666 INTERESTING SHAPED ROUNDED LEAVES-- 486 00:18:08,666 --> 00:18:11,600 VERY, VERY TYPICAL OF THIS PART OF FLORIDA 487 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,400 AND AGAIN, CONNECTED TO THE WEST INDIES. 488 00:18:21,566 --> 00:18:24,466 THE LOOP ROAD REALLY PROVIDES BEST OPPORTUNITY 489 00:18:24,466 --> 00:18:27,600 TO GET INTO THE HEART OF THE CYPRESS SWAMPS 490 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:31,900 AND TO EXPERIENCE THE NATURE OF BIG CYPRESS UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL. 491 00:18:31,900 --> 00:18:34,700 YEAH, WE'RE CLOSE TO LOTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY 492 00:18:34,700 --> 00:18:37,900 AND YET WE CAN GET AWAY AND SEE SIGHTS LIKE THIS 493 00:18:37,900 --> 00:18:40,233 AND REALLY HEAR SOUNDS LIKE THIS 494 00:18:40,233 --> 00:18:41,566 AS SOON AS WE WALK UP. 495 00:18:41,566 --> 00:18:43,066 LISTEN TO THE FISH. 496 00:18:43,066 --> 00:18:45,400 YEAH, IT'S THE FISH SPLASHING. 497 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:46,966 POPPING ALL OVER THE PLACE. 498 00:18:46,966 --> 00:18:49,266 IT'S LIKE A BIG AQUARIUM THAT WE'RE LOOKING INTO 499 00:18:49,266 --> 00:18:51,566 MAINLY FLORIDA GAR AND I MEAN IN LARGE NUMBERS. 500 00:18:51,566 --> 00:18:53,066 LOOK AT THOSE THINGS. 501 00:18:53,066 --> 00:18:54,733 THOSE ARE LONG ANIMALS 502 00:18:54,733 --> 00:18:56,733 AND NOT REALLY A GOOD FOOD FISH 503 00:18:56,733 --> 00:18:58,900 BUT PART OF THE WEB OF LIFE HERE. 504 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:00,500 SOME PEOPLE EAT THEM. 505 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:03,833 THEY DO HAVE BONY, UH, SCALES THAT ARE KIND OF INTERESTING. 506 00:19:03,833 --> 00:19:06,766 A VERY PRIMITIVE FISH FEEDING ON OTHER FISH, USUALLY 507 00:19:06,766 --> 00:19:08,266 AND SPEAKING OF OTHER FISH 508 00:19:08,266 --> 00:19:10,233 LOOK AT ALL THE LITTLE TINY ONES IN HERE-- 509 00:19:10,233 --> 00:19:11,933 SMALL FISH UP AGAINST THAT LIMEROCK. 510 00:19:11,933 --> 00:19:13,600 YOU CAN SEE THEM VERY, VERY CLEARLY. 511 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,566 AND THAT'S FOOD FOR A LOT OF THOSE BIRDS. 512 00:19:15,566 --> 00:19:18,500 EXACTLY. A LARGE REASON WE'RE GOING TO SEE AND HAVE SEEN 513 00:19:18,500 --> 00:19:20,400 SO MANY BIRDS HERE IN THE SWAMP. 514 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,066 THE OTHER FISH IN HERE... 515 00:19:22,066 --> 00:19:24,300 AND I DON'T THINK THIS IS A NATIVE CATFISH. 516 00:19:24,300 --> 00:19:26,400 THIS, I BELIEVE, IS THE WALKING CATFISH. 517 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,066 THE INTRODUCTION? 518 00:19:28,066 --> 00:19:29,733 THERE ARE QUITE A FEW EXOTICS 519 00:19:29,733 --> 00:19:32,333 THAT HAVE CAUSED PROBLEMS IN THIS PART OF FLORIDA. 520 00:19:32,333 --> 00:19:34,200 SEE THE LITTLE BARBELS ON THE FRONT? 521 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,100 THE WHISKERS LIKE A CAT'S WHISKERS 522 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:37,866 THAT GIVE CATFISH THEIR NAME. 523 00:19:37,866 --> 00:19:41,233 COMING UP, MAYBE GETTING SOME OF THOSE SMALL FISH RIGHT IN THE SHALLOWS. 524 00:19:41,233 --> 00:19:43,366 I DON'T THINK I'VE SEEN AS MANY FISH IN ONE PLACE 525 00:19:43,366 --> 00:19:46,033 BUT MUCH MORE EXCITING IS OVER AT THE EDGE OF THE WATER AND SEE 526 00:19:46,033 --> 00:19:47,733 THE WOOD STORKS AGAIN FEEDING THIS TIME. 527 00:19:47,733 --> 00:19:50,600 OH, LOOK AT THEM, DOWN IN THE WATER NOW, MOVING ALONG. 528 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,800 THAT IS AN INTERESTING WAY TO FIND FOOD-- 529 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,700 PUTTING YOUR BEAK DOWN, OPEN AND THEN MOVING YOUR FOOT 530 00:19:55,700 --> 00:19:57,600 SHAKING YOUR FOOT ALONG A LITTLE BIT 531 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,233 KIND OF FEELING AND SHAKING AND SCARING THINGS UP 532 00:20:00,233 --> 00:20:01,900 AND THEY FEED... 533 00:20:01,900 --> 00:20:04,433 THEY'LL FEED ON SMALL FISH AND OTHER VERTEBRATES 534 00:20:04,433 --> 00:20:06,400 AND THEN LOTS OF INVERTEBRATES, TOO-- 535 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:07,900 SHRIMP AND OTHER THINGS. 536 00:20:07,900 --> 00:20:10,433 THAT IS SO NEAT TO SEE A WADING BIRD IN ACTION 537 00:20:10,433 --> 00:20:12,066 AND YOU CAN DO THAT HERE. 538 00:20:12,066 --> 00:20:14,466 YOU SEE A LOT OF, UH, BEHAVIOR IN THESE ANIMALS 539 00:20:14,466 --> 00:20:16,900 WHICH MAKES, UH, THIS PLACE VERY, VERY SPECIAL. 540 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:18,733 AND THEY'RE SO USED TO PEOPLE. 541 00:20:18,733 --> 00:20:22,700 WELL, THE WOOD STORKS ARE SO IMPORTANT TO BIRDERS, TO A DEGREE 542 00:20:22,700 --> 00:20:24,900 BECAUSE HERE IS WHERE YOU NEED TO FIND THEM. 543 00:20:24,900 --> 00:20:27,100 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FIND THEM MANY OTHER PLACES. 544 00:20:27,100 --> 00:20:29,400 AND THEY'RE MAKING A COMEBACK NOW, THANK GOODNESS 545 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,300 AND NOT ONLY DO YOU SEE THEM IN THE WATER... 546 00:20:31,300 --> 00:20:32,833 LOOK AT THAT ONE FLYING UP-- 547 00:20:32,833 --> 00:20:35,100 YOU CAN SEE THE BLACK ON THE WINGS-- UP INTO THE TREE. 548 00:20:35,100 --> 00:20:38,633 AND YOU CAN LOOK IN THOSE CYPRESSES AND THERE THEY ARE. 549 00:20:38,633 --> 00:20:42,066 I MEAN, JUST SITTING AROUND PREENING, VERY NONCHALANT 550 00:20:42,066 --> 00:20:44,233 ON THOSE LONG, SPINDLY LEGS. 551 00:20:44,233 --> 00:20:45,766 WELL, BEFORE THE DRAINING 552 00:20:45,766 --> 00:20:47,933 THERE WERE A HUNDRED THOUSAND NESTING PAIRS. 553 00:20:47,933 --> 00:20:50,933 TODAY, JUST LITERALLY A FEW THOUSAND HERE AND THERE, BUT STILL 554 00:20:50,933 --> 00:20:53,166 THEY ARE MAKING A COMEBACK, AS YOU SAID. 555 00:20:53,166 --> 00:20:54,966 YEAH, THOSE ARE REALLY NEAT ANIMALS 556 00:20:54,966 --> 00:20:57,666 AND AGAIN, AS WE SAID, THEY'RE IN THE CYPRESSES. 557 00:20:57,666 --> 00:21:01,100 I MEAN, THESE ARE BIG OR LARGER CYPRESSES THAN WE'VE SEEN SO FAR 558 00:21:01,100 --> 00:21:03,566 AND YOU CAN SEE THE FLUTED BASE ON THEM 559 00:21:03,566 --> 00:21:05,833 THE BUTTRESSED BASE THAT IS FLUTED 560 00:21:05,833 --> 00:21:07,900 AND YOU CAN SEE CYPRESS KNEES-- 561 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:09,900 YOU KNOW, THOSE MODIFIED ROOTS 562 00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:12,333 THAT COME UP MAYBE FOR GAS EXCHANGE. 563 00:21:12,333 --> 00:21:14,300 BOY, THIS WOULD'VE BEEN INTERESTING 564 00:21:14,300 --> 00:21:16,900 WITH THOSE BIGGER BALD CYPRESSES IN THE PAST. 565 00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:20,033 36,000 TRAINLOADS TAKEN OUT, I GUESS, IN THE '40s. 566 00:21:20,033 --> 00:21:23,100 MADE A BIG CHANGE HERE, BUT STILL, A LOT TO SEE. 567 00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:25,333 THE OTHER THING IN THE TREES THAT IS AMAZING-- 568 00:21:25,333 --> 00:21:28,400 THE FIRST TIME I SEE THESE BIG ONES, THEY LOOK LIKE BIRD NESTS. 569 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:32,033 THEY DO, OR PINEAPPLES TO A DEGREE, SOME OF THEM. 570 00:21:32,033 --> 00:21:33,866 BROMELIAN FAMILY HAS PINEAPPLES IN IT 571 00:21:33,866 --> 00:21:36,266 AND THERE ARE THE BROMELIANS SITTING UP THERE-- 572 00:21:36,266 --> 00:21:38,666 SOME OF THEM WITH THE FLOWER STALKS COMING OUT. 573 00:21:38,666 --> 00:21:41,133 THAT'S THAT REDDISH COLOR THAT WE SEE. 574 00:21:41,133 --> 00:21:43,433 AIR PLANTS IS ANOTHER NAME FOR THEM 575 00:21:43,433 --> 00:21:45,933 AND THERE ARE ALSO QUITE A FEW ORCHIDS 576 00:21:45,933 --> 00:21:49,000 THAT GET UP IN TREES HERE-- EPIPHYTIC ORCHIDS. 577 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,000 BUT IT'S INTERESTING LOOKING IN THERE-- 578 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,233 IT LOOKS LIKE JUST BALLS OF NESTS, REALLY, IN FACT, AIR PLANTS. 579 00:21:54,233 --> 00:21:57,600 JIM, LOOK WHAT JUST LANDED IN THE SUNLIGHT OVER THERE-- 580 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,466 ONE OF THE BUCKEYE BUTTERFLIES 581 00:21:59,466 --> 00:22:03,033 AND I THINK THAT'S THE ONE CALLED THE "MANGROVE BUCKEYE." 582 00:22:03,033 --> 00:22:05,133 A LITTLE LARGER THAN THE BUCKEYE 583 00:22:05,133 --> 00:22:07,900 MORE COMMONLY FOUND IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES 584 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:10,466 AND REALLY TYPICAL OF THIS PART OF FLORIDA 585 00:22:10,466 --> 00:22:12,733 ASSOCIATED WITH, UH, BLACK MANGROVES. 586 00:22:12,733 --> 00:22:15,366 THERE IS A LOT TO SEE ON THIS SIDE, RUDY 587 00:22:15,366 --> 00:22:18,033 BUT IT SEEMS TO OPEN UP MORE OVER ON THIS SIDE. 588 00:22:18,033 --> 00:22:22,700 OH, YEAH. ISN'T IT NICE TO HAVE DIFFERENT VIEWS JUST SO CLOSE TOGETHER? 589 00:22:22,700 --> 00:22:24,700 AS SOON AS YOU GET HERE, LOOK AT THAT. 590 00:22:24,700 --> 00:22:27,233 BIG ALLIGATOR RIGHT THERE-- SUNNY. 591 00:22:27,233 --> 00:22:30,000 WHAT A WHOPPER. NOW, THAT'S THE LARGEST ONE THAT WE'VE SEEN SO FAR 592 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,066 AND OUT IN THAT OPEN THERE IS A LOT MORE SUN 593 00:22:32,066 --> 00:22:33,766 OVER THERE THAN THERE IS RIGHT HERE. 594 00:22:33,766 --> 00:22:35,400 WARMING UP, SLOWLY BUT SURELY 595 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,700 AND THERE'S A LOT OF ACTIVITY AROUND HIM 596 00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:39,800 AND YET AGAIN, HE'S JUST WARMING UP. 597 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,966 STOMACH MUST BE VERY, VERY FULL, OR HE'D BE HUNTING. 598 00:22:42,966 --> 00:22:47,000 ANOTHER LITTLE ALLIGATOR RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM THERE IN THE WATER. 599 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,633 A SINGLE WHITE IBIS UP THERE NEXT TO THE AIR PLANT. 600 00:22:49,633 --> 00:22:51,900 BOTH HAVE THE RED... THE RED ON THEM. 601 00:22:51,900 --> 00:22:54,933 HEY, LOOK AT THAT REDDISH-ORANGE BEAK, CURVED DOWN-- 602 00:22:54,933 --> 00:22:59,166 TYPICAL OF THE IBISES, FOR SURE, AND THOSE SORT OF REDDISH-ORANGE LEGS. 603 00:22:59,166 --> 00:23:03,200 THAT IS A NEAT ANIMAL, AND THAT IS THE ADULT, NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. 604 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,633 THAT WAS THE BIRD WE SAW, REMEMBER, THE ROSEATE SPOONBILL? 605 00:23:06,633 --> 00:23:08,933 SO NOW WE'RE GETTING A REAL CLOSE LOOK. 606 00:23:08,933 --> 00:23:11,400 VERY, VERY COMMON THIS TIME OF YEAR HERE. 607 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,400 AND LOOK AT ALL THE EGRETS OVER HERE, RUDY. 608 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,400 OH, YEAH, THEY'RE ALL OVER THE PLACE. 609 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:16,900 OF ALL KINDS. 610 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:19,566 WELL, YEAH, SNOWY EGRETS, EVEN BOUNCING AROUND OUT THERE. 611 00:23:19,566 --> 00:23:22,066 LOOK AT ALL OF THE PLUMAGE ON THOSE SNOWY EGRETS 612 00:23:22,066 --> 00:23:25,033 BOUNCING AROUND, AND THEN OTHERS OUT THERE FEEDING IN THE WATER. 613 00:23:25,033 --> 00:23:26,933 THAT'S ONE OF THE BRIGHT WHITE ONES 614 00:23:26,933 --> 00:23:29,233 AND THEN THE OTHER ONE NOW, MUCH LARGER... 615 00:23:29,233 --> 00:23:30,566 THE GREAT EGRET. 616 00:23:30,566 --> 00:23:32,233 THE GREAT EGRET. 617 00:23:32,233 --> 00:23:34,766 LONGER NECK, THE YELLOWISH BEAK ON THE GREAT EGRET. 618 00:23:34,766 --> 00:23:36,600 LOOKING FOR A MEAL OUT THERE, TOO. 619 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,700 I MEAN, PROBING, AND YET, SEE, NOW THAT CAN GO IN DEEPER WATER, RIGHT?-- 620 00:23:40,700 --> 00:23:44,100 THE SNOWY-- BECAUSE IT HAS LONGER LEGS AND IS A LONGER BIRD. 621 00:23:44,100 --> 00:23:46,366 I ALSO SEE OUT THERE THE IMMATURE WHITE IBIS NOW. 622 00:23:46,366 --> 00:23:48,400 THERE IS A DIRTY-LOOKING... SEE THAT? 623 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,066 OH, YEAH. 624 00:23:50,066 --> 00:23:52,933 ...IBIS, WHICH IS REALLY WHAT THE IMMATURE WOULD LOOK LIKE-- 625 00:23:52,933 --> 00:23:55,266 SORT OF BROWN ON IT, WITH THAT ORANGE BEAK AGAIN 626 00:23:55,266 --> 00:23:56,933 CURVED DOWN LIKE YOU WOULD EXPECT 627 00:23:56,933 --> 00:23:58,900 AND HUNTING FOR FISH AND INVERTEBRATES. 628 00:23:58,900 --> 00:24:01,033 THAT'S WHAT EVERYBODY OUT THERE IS DOING 629 00:24:01,033 --> 00:24:03,533 AND REALLY, IT'S NEAT TO STAND IN ONE PLACE 630 00:24:03,533 --> 00:24:05,433 AND SEE ALL OF THIS ACTIVITY-- 631 00:24:05,433 --> 00:24:08,233 GREAT EGRET UP FRONT, LITTLE OF EVERYTHING BEHIND IT. 632 00:24:08,233 --> 00:24:09,700 IT GIVES YOU A GREAT CHANCE 633 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:11,566 TO COMPARE THE SUBTLE DIFFERENCES 634 00:24:11,566 --> 00:24:13,066 BETWEEN WADING BIRDS. 635 00:24:13,066 --> 00:24:16,066 YEAH, SIZES AND COLORS AND OTHER THINGS. 636 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,100 THIS HAS BEEN A WONDERFUL AREA TO VISIT TO GIVE 637 00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:23,400 US A CHANCE TO OBSERVE WADING BIRDS UP CLOSE. 638 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,500 YEAH, AND AS YOU SAID, IT GIVES YOU A CHANCE 639 00:24:25,500 --> 00:24:27,800 TO COMPARE THINGS, TOO-- SIZES AND OTHER THINGS. 640 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,366 THAT'S KIND OF NICE, BUT THE VARIETY OF HABITATS HERE 641 00:24:30,366 --> 00:24:32,266 ALSO MAKES THIS VERY, VERY SPECIAL. 642 00:24:32,266 --> 00:24:35,100 THIS IS A PLACE THAT I IMAGINE A LOT OF PEOPLE DRIVE RIGHT BY 643 00:24:35,100 --> 00:24:37,966 AND THEY MISS SOME OF THE MOST WONDERFUL THINGS IN THE WORLD. 644 00:24:37,966 --> 00:24:39,900 IT'S KIND OF AN ENCHANTING PLACE, REALLY. 645 00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:44,833 IT IS, AND WE CAN BE THANKFUL IT WAS SAVED BACK IN 1974. 646 00:24:44,833 --> 00:24:48,900 728,000 ACRES AT THE BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE 647 00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:51,900 BETWEEN NAPLES AND MIAMI, FLORIDA. 648 00:24:51,900 --> 00:24:53,733 THANKS FOR WATCHING 649 00:24:53,733 --> 00:24:57,400 AND JOIN US AGAIN ON THE NEXT NATURE SCENE. 650 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,400 [Captioning sponsored by THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 651 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,400 Captioned by The Caption Center WGBH Educational Foundation] 652 00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:20,266 NATURE SCENE IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART 653 00:26:20,266 --> 00:26:22,233 BY A GRANT FROM SANTEE COOPER 654 00:26:22,233 --> 00:26:25,333 WHERE PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF OUR ENVIRONMENT 655 00:26:25,333 --> 00:26:28,600 ARE EQUAL IN IMPORTANCE TO PROVIDING ELECTRIC ENERGY. 656 00:26:30,833 --> 00:26:33,766 ADDITIONAL FUNDING IS PROVIDED 657 00:26:33,766 --> 00:26:37,833 BY THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING 658 00:26:37,833 --> 00:26:40,733 AND BY VIEWERS LIKE YOU 659 00:26:40,733 --> 00:26:43,900 MEMBERS OF THE ETV ENDOWMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA.