Villas Wildlife Management Area - This is an estate that was owned by the Hober family for 4 decades that had an 18 hole public golf course on it. It is a 250 acre property. The owner died years ago and the property was bought by the State to use as a wildlife area. There are talks of putting a college on the grounds which is good and bad in my opinion. The bad is the current buildings have been destroyed by fire, kids and are dangerous. There are windows broken with jagged glass edges where boards are put up to keep the kids out but they just take them down and get inside anyway. There was a beautiful lodge there along with houses for the workers of the golf course and all are very damaged. The good would be the repair or teardown of the buildings but the bad would be losing more land to building crowding out yet more widlife. There are quite a number of ponds that are old water hazards along with a large lake. The lake has an island with a gazebo but no way to get to it anymore. It would have been beautiful for wedding pictures, family pictures and such. It is a place that many walk their dogs or walk to see all the nature. While walking there I saw many turtles sunning themselves along with many species of birds.
Birds pictured are a Downy Woodpecker and Red-bellied Woodpecker.
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