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We Came To Our Census – Finale

Header Image: Ruby-crowned Kinglet Apparently, we did not exhaust ourselves enough during the Lakeland Christmas Bird Count so we volunteered to participate in the Green Swamp count. Twenty people. Over 500,000...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: american robin, brown-headed nuthatch, carolina chickadee, green swamp, house wren, palm warbler, pine warbler, red-shouldered hawk, ruby-crowned kinglet, wilson's snipe, yellow-rumped warbler

Coming To Our Census – Part The First

Header Image: Burmarigold or Smooth Beggartick (Bidens laevis) Standing by the side of the road in the dark. Hands cupping our ears. Straining for the sounds of the night. “Whip, whip,...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american kestrel, american robin, audubon christmas bird count, belted kingfisher, blue-gray gnatcatcher, boat-tailed grackle, brown pelican, burmarigold, eastern phoebe, eastern towhee, great blue heron, killdeer, palm warbler, red cornsnake, red-bellied woodpecker, red-shouldered hawk, sandhill crane, wilson's snipe

Power To The — Birds!

Header Image: Royal Terns, Laughing Gulls, Ring-billed Gull Admit it. You like to watch birds. Some of you may even feed them and give them water. I personally know about people...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: cattle egret, eurasian collared dove, glossy ibis, green heron, laughing gull, little blue heron, palm warbler, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, royal tern, snowy egret, tricolored heron

An Uncommonly Good Evening

Header Image: Sunset “To the orange grove, right?” I am so predictable. At the time I signed the contract over 50 years ago, I suspected Gini could read my mind. That...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: american kestrel, american robin, bald eagle, baltimore oriole, clay-colored sparrow, glossy ibis, sandhill crane, scisssor-tailed flycatcher, western kingbird, white-crowned sparrow

As The Fog Clears

Header Image: Eastern Phoebe Eyes Bagworm Moth We seem to relish foggy days. For one, as Gini noted on this day, it just seems so quiet. The stillness of an early...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: arrowhead spider, climbing aster, common grackle, eastern bluebird, eastern phoebe, fog, house wren, hyacinth glider, moonflower, northern harrier, red-tailed hawk, ruby-crowned kinglet, savannah sparrow, swamp sparrow, tenoroc fma, variegated fritillary, white ibis, yellow-rumped warbler

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