FEBRUARY 19, 2019 07:00 AM,
UPDATED FEBRUARY 19, 2019 08:40
AM
Beneath stacks of highway
overpasses, hard by a county jail, inside barbed-wire fencing and perched above
a concrete-colored pond, it’s a sight for sore eyes: Egrets. A couple of
hundred egrets, impossibly white against the dingy landscape, as if they were
dipped in fluffy clouds on their flight down from the sky.
They have found a winter home in
Miami’s inner city. True snowbirds, they’re staying at a green condo of bushes
just north of Northwest 14th Street between Northwest Seventh Avenue and I-95,
on vacant Florida Department of Transportation land dotted with royal palms,
oaks and ceiba trees. Discarded McDonald’s wrappers, Doritos bags, coffee cups,
cigarette butts, shoes, sweatshirts and bedsheets have collected against the
surrounding fences. Traffic zooms overhead and the loud noise bounces off large
support columns sunk into the water.
“It’s like an oasis for them,”
said Alex Gomez, a cook walking to work. “It’s the closest thing to a swamp
around here.”
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