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So Much – LIFE ! (Part The Second)

Breakfast was delightful and enhanced by the local ambience. Alligators now recognize us on sight and popped up to the lake’s surface every few minutes to be sure we were still...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: cloudless sulphur, coffee-loving pyrausta moth, common buckeye, eastern amberwing, fish crow, horace's duskywing, osprey, rambur's forktail, round-tailed muskrat, spicebush swallowtail, tenoroc fma, two-striped forceptail, viceroy

So Much – LIFE !

Are the drops on the leaves and blades of grass from dew or last night’s rainfall? It doesn’t matter. They reflect the morning sunlight as though a thousand prisms had been...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: barred yellow, black-bellied whistling-duck, ceraunus blue, clouded skipper, dorantes longtail, four-spotted pennant, halloween pennant, limpkin, little yellow, needham's skimmer, ornate bella moth, rambur's forktail, tenoroc public use area, tricolored heron, variable dancer, whirlabout, white ibis, white m hairstreak

Babylon! Blood! Beauty!

A review of last year’s records began as a search for early fall migration arrival dates. It soon devolved into a tragic tale of ancient Babylon, unfulfilled love and blood-soaked —...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american grasshopper, black and yellow argiope, bumble bee, cloudless sulphur, colt creek state park, delaware skipper, dorantes longtail, eastern lubber grasshopper, hummingbird clearwing moth, needham's skimmer, northern parula, prince baskettail, red saddlebags, red-bellied woodpecker, red-shouldered hawk, river otter, roseate skimmer

There Are No Ordinary Days

Summer is enveloping us. Walking out the front door is like entering a huge sauna. The humidity turns clothing into a heap of sopping wet rags. Camera and binocular lenses fog...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Florida, Photography Tags: american kestrel, eastern bluebird, horace's duskywing, little blue dragonlet, red-shouldered hawk, scarlet skimmer, slaty skimmer, tenoroc fma, water moccasin

On The Ridge

June in Florida. Very early in the morning, one can imagine the air still has the lingering coolness most people associate with spring. It’s a hallucination. If you take more...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Insects, Photography Tags: american white waterlily, arbuckle tract, bar-winged skimmer, bumble bee, butterfly milkweed, carolina satyr, eastern tiger swallowtail, eastern towhee, florida scrub jay, great crested flycatcher, green anole, lake wales ridge state forest, northern parula, red saddlebags, red-headed woodpecker, southeastern five-lined skink, summer tanager, tufted titmouse, wild turkey, yellow milkwort

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