Header Image: Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) A definition of a “timeline” might be: a sequence of related events arranged in chronological order and displayed along a line. Therefore, “Nature’s Timeline” could...
Category: Birds, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, barn swallow, black and yellow argiope, cloudless sulphur, colt creek state park, common buckeye, dorantes longtail, eastern kingbird, fiery skipper, fungus, green tree frog, horace's duskywing, little blue dragonlet, puddling, purple martin, sleepy orange, spotted orbweaver, swallow-tailed kite, tropical checkered-skipper, variegated fritillary
(Header image: Buff-breasted Sandpiper) Today’s title may seem like an oxymoron, but species defined as shorebirds spend a lot of time at places other than the shore, such as mud flats,...
Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: avon park cutoff road sod fields, buff-breasted sandpiper, european starling, greater yellowlegs, killdeer, least sandpiper, lesser yellowlegs, mottled duck, pectoral sandpiper, red-winged blackbird, semipalmated plover, spotted sandpiper, stilt sandpiper, wilson's snipe
Eight minutes. “Would it be okay if I go to the park in the morning?” “You know you don’t have to ask. Of course it would be okay.” “It’s just that...
Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: american alligator, black-and-white warbler, blue-gray gnatcatcher, common gallinule, downy woodpecker, eastern bluebird, eastern wood-pewee, green heron, lake parker park, limpkin, little blue heron, mourning dove, northern parula, pileated woodpecker, prairie warbler, red-bellied woodpecker, snowy egret, tricolored heron, white-eyed vireo, white-winged dove, yellow warbler, yellow-throated warbler
(Header image: Common Ground Dove.) The conversation usually goes something like: “Is there somewhere you would like to go tomorrow?” Gini responds, “Anywhere is fine with me.” “Anywhere” will typically be...
Florida. The Sunshine State. Our climate is sub-tropical with an average annual rainfall of around 55 inches (140 cm). Mild winters range from the low 50’s F (10 C) in north...
Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: black and yellow argiope, colt creek state park, great blue skimmer, green lynx spider, gulf fritillary, hummingbird clearwing moth, leaf-footed bug, northern cardinal, phaon crescent, roseate skimmer, sleepy orange, swallow-tailed kite, thread-waisted wasp, tropical checkered-skipper, variegated fritillary, zebra heliconian
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