Distant choruses of green treefrogs echo faintly as prothonotary, parula, and Swainson s warblers sing from the moss-draped tupelos. As you glide beneath a noisy rookery of squabbling egrets and herons, a soaring swallowtail kite gives its klee klee klee cry. Barred owls begin their morning hoot-fest, triggering a gobbler to sound off on the high levee. Despite the clamor, your passing does not go unnoticed. Alarmed deer snort from the banks.
Turtles plop from their basking logs.
A beaver slaps the water. Wood ducks explode from the shallows and whistle off upstream. A crashing in the trees is probably only a hog, but you smile to think it just might be one of the Delta s bears putting a safe distance between him and you.