(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Our timing was good. Driving through the fringe of the city limits in the dark of pre-dawn is sometimes a harrowing experience....
Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: arbuckle tract, bachman's sparrow, blackroot, eastern cottontail, elliot's milkpea, grass-leaved ladies' tresses, grassleaf lettuce, lake wales ridge state forest, palamedes swallowtail, pinebarren aster, pricklypear, red saddlebags, roserush, white-eyed vireo, whitemouth dayflower
(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Just after sunrise, by the side of a lake, we take delight in the distant, slightly eerie calls of Limpkins. Do they...
Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bald eagle, black vulture, creeping woodsorrel, eastern pondhawk, glossy ibis, greater yellowlegs, gulf fritillary, halloween pennant, northern parula, nuttal's thistle, oakleaf fleabane, ovenbird, prickly pear, red saddlebags, red-bellied woodpecker, red-shouldered hawk, solitary sandpiper, southern beeblossom, swamp sparrow, sweetscent, white ibis, wood duck
(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) The bottom of that shoebox we found for the previous post held a few more pictures, so we thought we would share....
(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) March was a busy month around here. Several family birthdays, annoying medical appointments, an anniversary road trip. During an overdue cleanup of...
(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) In order to enjoy sunrise at some of our favorite distant locales, the clock must be set to scream at an alarmingly...
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