Best month for bass fishing. May The endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers are viewed around their nesting colonies. Florida soft-shell turtles are laying eggs, and raccoons are just as rapidly digging them up and eating them. Turkey poults are seen walking in close procession behind their hen. Warmouth perch fishing is improving.
Newborn fawns appear.
June Chorus, green tree, pig, carpenter and over a dozen other species of frogs are heard during the evenings. Good bream fishing. July Young herons, egrets and ibis, now fully fledged, leave the rookeries. Wood storks are observed feeding in the prairies. Red-headed woodpeckers and pine warblers are seen in pine forest uplands.