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Willful Wander

Header Image: White-tailed Deer Avian fall migration brings out the worst in me. Years of conditioning to be a better “birder” forces me to peruse local birding reports and to visit...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, carolina saddlebags, cloudless sulphur, eastern bluebird, fiery skipper, great blue skimmer, pearl crescent, ridgeback grasshopper, saltmarsh morning-glory, sleepy orange, white-tailed deer, wild turkey

Colt Creek Critters

Header Image: Eastern Pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis) A pine forest is welcoming in so many ways. The unique green of the trees, the scent that has become synonymous with “fresh“, the cones...

Category: Fauna, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bar-winged skimmer, black-bordered lemon moth, colt creek state park, cuban brown anole, eastern pondhawk, great blue skimmer, little blue dragonlet, white-tailed deer, yellow garden spider

Header Image: Hummingbird Clearwing (Hemaris thysbe) “Those are some tall thistles!” My mistress of understatement was right. Soon, I would be threading my way through that sticky forest and would discover...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bandana of the everglades, bar-winged skimmer, blue dasher, bumble bee, carolina desert-chicory, carolina saddlebags, colt creek state park, cypress tree gall, eastern bluebird, eastern lubber grasshopper, flower beetle, great crested flycatcher, hummingbird clearwing, mexican pricklypoppy, palamedes swallowtail, pickerelweed, red saddlebags, swamp rose, white-tailed deer, wild turkey, zebra heliconian

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

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