Birds | Our Natural Places

“… To Where It Bent In The Undergrowth …”*

A glimple of bright orange. “Is that a milkweed?” No. No it wasn’t. It was just after sunrise and we made a different choice today. This particular tract is a wildlife...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: brown-winged striped sweat bee, bumble bee, clustered bushmint, fork-tailed bush katydid, great golden digger wasp, green swamp, pale meadowbeauty, persimmon, skyflower, southern beeblossom, twin-spot skipper, virginia saltmarsh mallow, winged loosestrife, yellow fringed orchid

We Gathered Rosebuds While In May*

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) (Gini continues to take it easy and liked the hospital food so much she may schedule another visit soon. In the meantime,...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: buttonbush, carolina chickadee, citrine forktail, eastern black swallowtail, eastern carpenter bee, florida bellflower, four-petal st. john's-wort, green swamp, horace's duskywing, little yellow, mock bishop's weed, phaon crescent, pineland waterwillow, pitted stripeseed, roundpod st. john's-wort, showy milkwort, spurred butterfly pea, swamp rose, tufted titmouse, yellow milkwort

Just Another Ordinary Incredibly Amazing Morning

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) “They look like some sort of ripe golden jewels ready to be picked.” Gini’s description of the Eastern Amberwing was pretty accurate....

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: black-bellied whistling-duck, bulimulus snail, eastern amberwing, eastern lubber grasshopper, elliot's milkpea, fragile forktail, green anole, man-of-the-earth, red-tailed hawk, spanish moss, swallow-tailed kite, tenoroc fma

Slow Motion Notion

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) I often tend to be in a hurry. Anxious to “see it all”, I have been known to snap a quick picture...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: arrow-shaped orbweaver, ceraunus blue, florida alicia, four-spotted pennant, frogfruit, grassleaf letuce, halloween pennant, little blue dragonlet, little blue heron, needham's skimmer, ornate bella moth, sand blackberry, southern beeblossom, vagrant scrubsnail, wooly bee fly

Face Whispers

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) We needed a “Nature Fix”. (About a month ago, Gini was advised to have a pacemaker/defibrilator implanted to improve the quality and...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue grosbeak, butterweed, canadian toadflax, clasping venus's looking glass, colt creek state park, florida bluehearts, north american racer, passion flower, swallow-tailed kite, tread-softly, tufted titmouse, white-tailed deer

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