Fauna | Our Natural Places

Finding Nature

Watching a sunrise is special. Sharing it with someone you love – priceless. We have an established routine at this spot. Begin near the boat ramp, walk along the lake shore...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american coot, american redstart, anhinga, black-and-white warbler, common gallinule, downy woodpecker, eastern pondhawk, limpkin, little blue heron, sunrise, white ibis, white peacock

Afternoon Delight

At times, later is better. I qualify as a world-class procrastinator, but once in awhile, I actually plan on being late when it comes to nature. No need to arise early...

Category: Fauna, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: celestial lily, colt creek state park, liatris, pine lily, sherman's fox squirrel, white-tailed deer, yellow-eyed grass

Small Pleasures

(Reminder: Click to enlarge images. Click again to zoom.) A cool morning! Okay, perhaps not “cool“, but “not as hot“. It was a few minutes past sunrise and our target area...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: abbot's bagworm moth, common ground dove, dainty sulphur, fire on the mountain, four-spotted pennant, green anole, horace's duskywing, hoverfly, mason wasp, milkweed assassin bug, needham's skimmer, plains snakecotton, rainbow scarab, rambur's forktail, roseate skimmer, spicebush swallowtail, variegated fritillary, wedge-shaped beetle

On The Importance of Planning

It is vital to set goals is life. Without a goal, how do you know where to go? If you don’t know where you’re going it is all too easy to...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american germander, black-bellied whistling-duck, boat-tailed grackle, colt creek state park, dorantes longtail, gaillardia, gopher tortoise, great egret, gulf fritillary, hairypod cowpea, little blue heron, narrowleaf primrosewillow, needham's skimmer, oppositeleaf spotflower, pale meadowbeauty, red-footed cannibalfly, red-headed woodpecker, red-winged blackbird, saltmarsh morning-glory, summer tanager

Morning In The Wetlands

I gave up wearing hiking boots. For one thing, my days of going on lengthy hikes over rough terrain are in my rear view mirror. Water-resistant linings and treatments for preventing...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bandanna of the everglades, black-crowned night heron, blue dasher, bumble bee, common buttonbush, eastern gama grass, eastern pondhawk, great blue heron, great egret, itchepackesassa creek wetlands, marsh rabbit, pickerelweed, purple gallinule, queen, rambur's forktail, sachem, scarlet skimmer, seven sisters

Our Natural Places

Exploring - Naturally