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Spring In Winter

(Click images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Good news and bad news. The good news: Our central Florida winter has not had any days below freezing. That means we have...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: bald eagle, blue-gray gnatcatcher, burmarigold, climbing aster, double-crested cormorant, eastern phoebe, indian blanket, limpkin, opossum, osprey, rosary pea, yellow-rumped warbler

Marsh Madness 2/3

(Click images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) “All that water looks really shallow but if you wade out in it you would probably completely disappear in the soft mud.” I’m...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american white pelican, gulf fritillary, hooded merganser, indian blanket, marsh, merritt island nwr, northern shoveler, roseate spoonbill, tricolored heron, white ibis, wood stork

Colt Creek State Park

(Click images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Standing still, eyes closed, head tilted one way then another. I hear the distant call of a Red-shouldered Hawk, the guttural “caw-caw-cawwww” of...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, ceraunus blue, colt creek state park, coral bean, gopher tortoise, gulf fritillary, hover fly, red-banded hairstreak, red-shouldered hawk, rice button aster, river otter, savannah sparrow, shortleaf wild coffee, sunshine mimosa, tree swallow

In Search of Tyrants

“All men would be tyrants if they could.” – Daniel Defoe One of the special treats we enjoyed when living in Texas was the year around presence of Scissor-tailed Flycatchers. Their...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue-gray gnatcatcher, ornate bella moth, palm warbler, peninsula cooter, sandhill crane, scissor-tailed flycatcher, sunset, western kingbird

Falling Toward Winter

(Click to enlarge images, click again to zoom.) Winter solstice begins in two days. That may not mean too much, temperature-wise, to us here in central Florida, but in many areas...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american beautyberry, carolina satyr, chapman's blazing star, colt creek state park, eastern bluebird, eastern phoebe, four-petal st. john's-wort, goldenrod, gray wall jumper, gulf fritillary, house wren, narrowleaf sunflower, northern cardinal, prairie warbler, swamp sparrow, tropical checkered-skipper, white ibis, whitetailed deer, wood stork

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