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Perpetual Tourists

Header Image: Swallow-tailed Kite “Are you a birder?” The question was simple enough. My answer was quick: “Yes.” Once upon a time, I considered myself a “bird watcher”, but somewhere along...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: common grackle, dainty sulphur, robber fly, slaty skimmer, swallow-tailed kite, tenoroc fma, tricolored heron, yellow-eyed grass

(Header Image: Great Blue Heron On The Nest) I keep thinking if I arrive at sunrise the view will be spectacular, what with all that “Golden Light” photographers continuously seek. Unfortunately, the light still...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, cypress clubtail, eastern ribbon snake, gray catbird, great blue heron, leaf-footed bug, moonflower, northern flicker, osprey, rambur's forktail, regal darner, tenoroc PUA

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

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