This morning when I was walking with my friend, Karina, we had one of these birds running after us. We stopped and let him catch up. He came right up to my hand. I thought he might be someone’s pet, but then he ran off after another smaller bird. We had never seen such a colorful bird. We have lots of interesting birds, but he was the friendliest.
Bob and I went to a wedding Saturday night. The wedding was outside on the grounds of a new home (just completed that week)built on a lake in Winter Haven. The couple who owns the new house lived in a shack next door while it was being built. The shack has a tin roof which is almost completely covered by blue tarp because of hurricane damage. Under the tarp the roof is definetly rusted.
Inside the shack are 2 dogs. One is a large muttly dog. The other is a large hog dog. Hog dogs are popular around here.
The muttly dog is named Jeb. The hog dog is Teddy. I asked if they had a dog named Grant, but no such coincidence.