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Crooked River: The Beginning

Header Image: Pine Flatwoods It can be exhilarating to be prone in the damp grass early in the morning just after sunrise observing the waking moments of what is likely the...

Category: Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, bluejacket, carolina wild petunia, citrine forktail, cloudless sulphur, coral bean, crooked river, green anole, green swamp, least skipper, lizard's tail, palamedes swallowtail, pearl crescent, peruvian primrosewillow, savanna iris, starrush whitetop, striped mud turtle, swamp rose, withlacoochee river

No Work Patch Work

Header Image: Black-necked Stilt When is a birding patch not a patch? The word “patch” denotes something small. Talk to a birder about their local patch and it will usually turn...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, black-necked stilt, cedar waxwing, common buckeye, eastern amberwing, florida softshell turtle, freshwater mussels, great blue heron, great egret, great southern white osprey, lesser yellowlegs, norhtern mockingbird, red-bellied woodpecker, snowy egret, tenoroc public use area, tricolored heron, wood stork

Multitasking Naturally

Header Image: Swamp Chaos This is a follow-up to our last post about flowers. There was a tremendous outcry from a massive amount of our followers protesting the fact no bird...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, bar-winged skimmer, blue dasher, cattle egret, cedar waxwing, colt creek state park, dorantes longtail, eastern bluebird, eastern pondhawk, groundselbush beetle, gulf fritillary, halloween pennant, little blue heron, ornate bella moth, palm warbler, phaon crescent, red-shouldered hawk, red-winged blackbird, white-tailed deer, wild turkey

Short And Sweet

Header Image: White-tailed Deer No. The title does not refer to Gini. No matter whether such a description might be true, she may take exception to that “short” thing. And you...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Photography Tags: carolina chickadee, cattle egret, eastern bluebird, eastern kingbird, tufted titmouse, white-tailed deer

‘A Day of Sunshine’ *

Header Image: White-tailed Deer At Dawn The early morning mist was light and the woods were just waking. Rude Blue Jays did their best to ensure no one slept in. Nature...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, brown-legged grass-carrier wasp, colt creek state park, great egret, horace's duskywing, little blue heron, long-tailed skipper, pearl crescent, queen, red saddlebags, red-shouldered hawk, scrub palmetto, sleepy orange, white peacock, white-tailed deer, zebra swallowtail

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