Paddle and Rookery Visit at Webb Wildlife Center

While our outing’s primary purpose is to kayak and explore Bluff Lake, Webb’s cypress-tupelo swamp, we'll also visit the very busy Rookery on the way to the put-in. Last year, the Rookery hosted cattle egrets, snowy egrets, great egrets, anghingas, little blue herons, and more. Bring binoculars if you have them; we will bring our scope. After visiting the rookery, we will launch at the Bluff Lake landing and paddle the marked canoe trail—and well beyond. Depending on how long we’ve stayed at the Rookery, we may lunch before the paddle, but the working plan is to picnic on dry ground deep in the swamp. Like the Rookery, the swamp is full of life. Keep a look out for prothonotary warblers, chickadees, white ibis, barred owls, anhingas, yellow-crowned night herons, osprey, red-shouldered hawks, yellow-bellied sliders, alligators, and more.

This trip will be led by April Childress and Jody Tinsley. Both…