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Spring In Our Step

(Header Image: American Alligator) (NOTE: We apologize for being away the past few weeks. Computers apparently have a limited life span. Ours exceeded that limit. It took longer than expected to...

Category: Birds, Flora, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, blue dasher, colt creek state park, eastern lubber grasshopper, eastern meadowlark, great crested flycatcher, great southern white, green treefrog, halloween pennant, jumping spider, little blue dragonlet, mexican pricklypoppy, narrowleaf blue-eyed grass, ornate bella moth, phaon crescent, rambur's forktail, southern watersnake, swallow-tailed kite

Georgia On My Mind

(Header Image: Pecan Tree) Great segments of the land were decorated in pink. Just for us. Narrow dirt roads had been given the color of the interior of a perfectly baked...

Category: Birds, Photography Tags: american robin, barn, cedar waxwing, chipping sparrow, common grackle, downy woodpecker, eastern bluebird, georgia, northern mockingbird, palm warbler, peach blossom, pecans, pine warbler, red-bellied woodpecker, tufted titmouse, yellow-rumped warbler

Flashback! “Spring Preview”

(Header Image: Female Painted Bunting) Time. It doesn’t wait around for us. It seems we were enjoying New Year’s dinner and all of sudden we remarked how wonderful Easter Dinner was!...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: american robin, american white pelican, bald eagle, black vulture, brown pelican, eastern phoebe, gray catbird, lake crago park, moon, northern mockingbird, osprey, painted bunting, red-shouldered hawk, roseate spoonbill, sandhill crane, wood stork, yellow-rumped warbler

Birding to infinity – and beyond (III)

(Header Image: Shorebirds At Dusk) There are some occasions when birding becomes secondary. (GASP!!) This was one of those times. The birds were numerous, it was exciting to see species we...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: american avocet, black skimmer, dunlin, glossy ibis, great egret, horseshoe crab, least sandiper, lesser yellowlegs, merritt island nwr, northern harrier, ring-billed gull, sanderling, semipalmated sandpiper, snowy egret, sunset, western sandpiper

birding to infinity – and beyond (II)

It was getting warm. Comfortable. Not hot. Blue skies, salt water and the constant sounds of birds enveloped us in a cocoon of contentment. We exited East Gator Creek Road after...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american avocet, american coot, american white pelican, american wigeon, black skimmer, blue-winged teal, canada goose, common green darner, damselfly, dragonfly, fungus, green heron, lesser scaup, little blue heron, merritt island nwr, northern flicker, ornate pennant, parrish park, rambur's forktail, redhead, ruddy turnstone, tricolored heron

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