india_darshan Wrote:
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> When I first came to the Orlando area, there was a
> lot of untouched land. Now, that is
> gone...gone...gone as the land was cleared aka
> with the "clearing fires" to build more of those
> pre-fab subdivisions, schools, gated communities,
> and....whoopee...more malls. I always felt so sad
> when I would see more wooded areas being burned
> away to get ready for construction. In my complex,
> I have recently seen more than a few egrets.
> Beautiful birds! Their homes have been destroyed
> by rampant development. I often wonder how many of
> these lovely birds get run over by idiotic drivers
> or tormented by horrible sprogs.
It's the same thing here on the Texas gulf coast. There are so many beautiful egrets, pelicans, herons, roseate spoonbills and other water birds, but they are doing so much construction and development around here that I fear for their survival. The natives here just take the birds for granted, because they're used to them. They don't know how lucky they are to have them!
It's a sick world we live in when a McMansion development with a faux-nature name like "Pelican Pointe" is more important than the land and birds.