Photos: Pre-Spring Wandering

Today's trip was a spur of the moment thing. We made the move from our comfort zone and traveled to Pond Creek W M A in Arkansas. The hawks were plentiful today and we spent some time with them on the way up to Pond Creek. The photographing started out slowly but started to pick up with some deer sightings. We checked out the usual gator holes since it was a warm day, however, the gators were hold up out of sight. The deer sightings increased with twenty-five plus sightings. We then started finding smaller critters (possum, raccoons, armadillos, etc working the water filled ditches searching for insects and crayfish. The young armadillo decided to take a mud bath and I spent some time engrossed in it's activities. Soon afterwards the young possum emerged and was strolling along the ditches. I missed a couple of photographs of a huge hog and a couple of large coons.
It was great to be outside and in the presence of wildlife and nature once again. During the day we crossed paths with no other humans or heard the sounds of boom box music or sirenes. This is the live I love so much and wish to enjoy more of.