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Evening Ride

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Sweltering summer days. Exploring in August usually means being out early. Today, we braved the humidity and building thunderstorms to visit one...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: black-necked stilt, blue grosbeak, common nighthawk, red-shouldered hawk, sunset

(Click images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) “Wow!” That’s an overused interjection, for certain. Sometimes, however, nothing else conveys the meaning one seeks. Besides, it’s a direct quote, so there....

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american robin, canadian toadflax, carolina desert-chicory, carolina jessamine, colt creek state park, common yellowthroat, gray catbird, leavenworth's tickseed, lyreleaf sage, mexican pricklypoppy, oakleaf fleabane, osprey, pileated woodpecker, red-shouldered hawk, savannah sparrow, sawtooth blackberry, walter's viburnum, wood stork, yellow-rumped warbler, yellow-throated warbler

Back In The Saddle Again*

Life is precious. Step outside. Breathe deeply. Tell someone you love them. (Our handlers released the latch to the door of our confinement and we furtively stepped onto the soft grass....

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: black-and-white warbler, coastal plain willow, glossy ibis, lesser yellowlegs, limpkin, little blue heron, palm warbler, red-shouldered hawk, savannah sparrow, wilson's snipe, yaupon holly, yellow-rumped warbler

Happy New Year!

(Yes, we’re late to the party but we hope you are all well into living your best life as a new year brings so many new opportunities. Gini and I are...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, carolina yellow-eyed grass, cloudless sulphur, eastern lubber grasshopper, golden silk spider, green swamp, little blue dragonlet, ornate bella moth, pine lily, purple false foxglove, purple loosestrife, red-femured spotted orbweaver, richloam wma, skyflower, sleepy orange, southern broken-dash, spurred butterfly pea, tall elephantsfoot, tufted titmouse, vanillaleaf, virginia buttonweed, withlacoochee state forest

Falling In The Morning

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) (Note: This visit to Colt Creek State Park occurred on September 17, 2024. On October 8, during the night and the following...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american beautyberry, colt creek state park, eastern bluebird, forked bluecurls, gator creek, green heron, mac lake, panicled ticktrefoil, pine warbler, pitted stripeseed, prairie warbler, sleepy orange, tall elephantsfoot, viceroy, white ibis

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