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(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
(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Yesterday we were sweeping up the place after our extravagant holiday reveling. There, among the bits of discarded shrimp, crumpled paper hats,...
Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: band-winged dragonlet, carolina spreadwing, cassius blue, ceraunus blue, climbing aster, downy woodpecker, great blue heron, great southern white, groundsel tree, long-tailed skipper, rambur's forktail, red-shouldered hawk, roseate skimmer, sharp-shinned hawk, sleepy orange, variegated meadowhawk, yellow-rumped warbler
(Click to enlarge images. Click again to zoom.) It was mid-November and plans were in progress for Thanksgiving. Family and food. Not enough of the former and too much of the...
Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: anhinga, bald eagle, blue-gray gnatcatcher, brown pelican, cloudless sulphur, eastern carpenter bee, eastern phoebe, great egret, green lynx spider, little blue heron, northern cardinal, northern mockingbird, red-shouldered hawk, variegated fritillary
(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
We arrived at Lake Apopka just before “official” sunrise. Of course, the fog obscured the sun completely. It was now about three hours later and the marsh was awash in sunshine,...
Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american white waterlily, belted kingfisher, blue-winged teal, broadleaf arrowhead, bulltongue arrowhead, eastern phoebe, fulvous whistling-duck, great blue heron, lake apopka wildlife drive, mottled duck, palm warbler, purple gallinule, spatterdock, striped mud turtle, yellow warbler
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