Bird sightings include mockingbird, catbird, blue jay, painted bunting, red-shouldered hawk, mourning Dove, killdeer, osprey, grebe, brown thrasher, wrens, and red-winged blackbird, cooper's hawk, to name just a few. The church property is surrounded on two sides by South Florida Water Management District flood control canals and on one side by a private canal. The banks of the canals are home to egrets, herons, mottled ducks, wood ducks, otter, and ibis.
A survey of the water ways showed an active and healthy population of bass, sunfish, bream and some gar. Fish food is set out in the canal on the south border. The fish are fed about once or twice a week. No fishing is permitted within three hundred feet of the feeding area. Feed is generally set on in the early morning and late afternoon. A survey of fisher-people catches shows that the fish population is healthy and abundant.
Raccoon, opossum, and fox as well as squirrels and rabbit are some of the mammalian residents. Gopher tortoise were once with us but no longer as were deer. The last bobcat was sighted in 2007. Snakes are generally black racers, glass snakes, corn snakes and garter snakes. There has never been evidence of or a sighting of poisonous snakes.
Several honey bee hives have come and gone on the property and usually come in with the advent of the farming season on the lands north of the parish.
Truly, God has given us every manner of beast and place us in stewardship over them.