For the 5th year, Cape Coral Friends of Wildlife held their Ground Owl Day at Pelican Baseball Complex in Cape Coral. A short ceremony celebrated the ground owl seeing its shadow and adding 6 more weeks of winter to Southwest Florida.
Andrea Melendez / WGCU photoRhetta McEntyre and her husband Chucky have found themselves living on the side of a road in North Fort Myers after having two days to get out of the Gulf Coast Camping Resort in Bonita Springs. They have bounced around from place to place over the past month and are just
The manatees at Manatee Park in Lee County were very active in the warming waters at the park Tuesday morning. They find shelter during cooler days in the canal that is fed warm water from the Florida Power & Light plant into the Orange River. Any number of manatee can be found at the park during our colder months, December and January, on this day there were around 10. These slow-moving sea cows are foragers that eat a plant-based diet, and they can eat up to 150 pounds of food per day. Manatees can hold their breath for almost 20 minutes and can live to be 40 years old. The presence of manatees is a reflection of the overall health of the vegetation in an area. If they can eat and it’s warm, they will come.