Fauna | Our Natural Places

The Southern Mines

(Click on images to zoom, click again to enlarge.) An hour past sunrise and lingering fog obscures the bright light we normally encounter. Damp air mutes the calls of Mourning Dove...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american lotus, blue dasher, bulltongue arrowhead, carolina desert-chicory, common gallinule, double-crested cormorant, forster's tern, four-spotted pennant, great egret, hardee lakes county park, killdeer, little blue heron, loggerhead shrike, mexican pricklypoppy, pickerelweed, prince baskettail, red-winged blackbird, sandhill cranes, white-eyed vireo

We Visit A Natural Place

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches and bananas. Underneath a pine tree. Cicadas sputter and then hum their familiar chorus. We stretch and sigh...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, butterweed, carolina desert-chicory, cutleaf evening primrose, eastern bluebird, gray squirrel, great crested flycatcher, gulf fritillary, marsh rabbit, mexican pricklypoppy, nuttall's thistle, oakleaf fleabane, pearl crescent, poey's furrowbee, purple passionflower, red-banded hairstreak, red-shouldered hawk, southern oak hairstreak, tievine, tread-softly, twin-spot skipper

Transition

(Click to enlarge images, click again to zoom.) We consumed the open sky and nearly infinite tan and green-flecked prairie as if it were an addicting and healing tonic. Which it...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: black-necked stilt, common buckeye, crested caracara, eastern carpenter bee, florida betony, four-spotted pennant, great blue heron, great egret, limpkin, osprey, pickerelweed, raccoon, sandhill crane, southern beeblossom, three lakes wma, white ibis

Happy New Year!

(Yes, we’re late to the party but we hope you are all well into living your best life as a new year brings so many new opportunities. Gini and I are...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, carolina yellow-eyed grass, cloudless sulphur, eastern lubber grasshopper, golden silk spider, green swamp, little blue dragonlet, ornate bella moth, pine lily, purple false foxglove, purple loosestrife, red-femured spotted orbweaver, richloam wma, skyflower, sleepy orange, southern broken-dash, spurred butterfly pea, tall elephantsfoot, tufted titmouse, vanillaleaf, virginia buttonweed, withlacoochee state forest

Falling In The Afternoon

(Click on image to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Previously, in “Falling In The Morning”, I alluded to the fact that Ranger Sunny provided a nugget of information which I had...

Category: Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, bigpod sesbania, butterflies, celestial lily, colt creek state park, longhorn bog orchid, pine lily, sunflower, white-tailed deer

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