Avian Beauty in Sarasota. Oh joy, all unanticipated

The nearby to my home Bobby Jones Golf Courses in Sarasota are being re-designed and re-made.

It is City owned, with two 18 hole courses (a British and an American), with a 9 hole Executive course across the road.

The City neglected this treasure for many years.  Each course was in bad shape, and the Clubhouse was miserable.

But in a rare moment of wisdom the City Commissioners recently voted some Twenty five million dollars for a rebuild.

When the work is done there will be but one 18th hole course (plus the renewed executive course).

It gets better.  The un-used land will be transformed into a Nature Trail for we non-Golfers.

We abutters are delighted that this lovely City owned 256 acre site will be preserved and not sold to Property Developers ( a.k.a. Retarders).

We will have breathing space in perpetua.

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Work began last week on the Nine Hole Executive Course.

The work was a magnet for two Avian species who gathered near a retention pond. 


                  Wood Storks.







                        A couple of Roseate Spoonbills.

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Unexpected beauty on what (for now) is not much more than a construction site. 

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