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Other trees and shrubs like pond cypress, blackgum, red maple, wax myrtle, and buttonwood are also be found in cypress swamps. Animals like white-tailed deer, minks, raccoons, pileated woodpeckers, purple gallinules, egrets, herons, alligators, frogs, turtles, and snakes are often found as well.
"When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature."
Henry David Thoreau
Interesting fact: Swamp Sparrows sometimes stick their head under water to try to capture aquatic invertebrates.
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Taken at Bogue Chitto NWR. The feathers in the water are from birds in the 2 rookeries on site.
Sept. 2018; Featured by Outdoor Photographer magazine.
This ship wrecked many years ago while attempting to short cut between the rocks. Fortunately there were no deaths involved.