Osprey

A blustery cool morning; I went to look for Bison on Prairie, but no luck. Wild horses, plenty of eagles and other raptors, wading birds, but no bison. The herd of bison that lives on Paynes Prairie is not actually native to the Prairie at all, but was brought from Oklahoma in the 1970?s as part of an ecological restoration project, in hopes of restoring the Prairie to its pre-European settler conditions (it was then that bison roamed free on the prairie, and whose numbers were decimated by the Europeans and Seminole Indians living there). Today, the bison are thriving, with several babies having been born through the years.