My backyard Florida pals were out to greet me my first week back in the warmth for the winter. 

These unlikely partners, a limpkin and an iguana, were on opposite sides of the chain link fence running along the waterfront.

And just off the dock, this pair of Muscovy ducks put on a lengthy display of aquatic sexual acrobatics.

And all this was closely watched at times by a pair of Egyptian geese who’d been sleeping on the dock.