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peace in the swamp

(Header image: Peace River swamp.) “The Butcher Bird’s been busy!” This was the third insect Gini had spotted stuck on a fence barb. The Butcher Bird is a nickname for members...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american redstart, anhinga, black vulture, black-and-white warbler, black-throated blue warbler, blue-ringed dancer, eastern pondhawk, fungus, mosaic peace river park, northern parula, peace river, phantom darner, ruby-throated hummingbird, wild turkey, worm-eating warbler

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

Shorebirds Sans Shore

(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

“Take Two Warblers And Call Me In The Morning”

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

Patching things up

(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...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: carolina satyr, clouded skipper, common ground dove, eastern meadowlark, needham's skimmer, ornate bella moth, red-tailed hawk, royal river cruiser, spicebush swallowtail, tenoroc fma, wandering glider, white peacock

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