These are possibly the cutest birds I've seen on my trip to Florida. They are owls - tiny little owls on really long legs that live in burrows in open spaces. These owls' home is a baseball diamond in a state park. While their burrows are roped off so people don't step directly on them, they are otherwise in the midst of pretty intensive human activity - but they don't seem to mind all that much.
This time of the year, the owls were having chicks already, but the first one I saw was the matriarch of the family:
I wish I could do
that:
After a while, the chicks - owlets - starting coming out one by one:
Until finally, the entire family cooperated on a group portrait:
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