Big Changes in Florida:

I had not been to Florida for the past three years, and recalling last years winter--snow every day for often for a week and some -50 degree temps--I was happy to have saved enough to fly to my
sister's in Estero. There, on previous occasions I have made myself useful cooking dinner, cleaning and running the dog.
This year I had the Tough Talk out of School manuscript to submit, so my "vacation" consisted of getting up every morning at five or six, working till 1 or 1:30, climbing into my swimsuit and riding the bike up to the pool, sunning and swimming for a couple hours, after I ran the dog around the block.
The thing I noticed immediately was the birds. Three years ago, when I was there for the first time, there were no birds in the yards of any of the homes, nor were they on the parkway up to the pool. This year they were everywhere, and
my sister says development is responsible.

There are several in my sister's neighborhood, tearing up the ground to build houses that the birds have been displaced from their wild places and are forced to search for food and dry their wings in places they never went before--along the parkways and in the yards of residences. This fine for the birds, since they can be airborne in an instant. Panthers and bears have a harder time because they need habitat.
The human species is destroying all others, but
we seem not to notice.