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Stuck In Summer

We have turned back the clock to mid-July. I guess it is a testament of sorts to how busy we have been that there are several trips which have gone unreported....

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american kestrel, eastern amberwing, green lynx spider, gulf fritillary, northern cardinal, roseate skimmer, snowy egret, spicebush swallowtail, swallow-tailed kite, variegated fritillary

The Ridge (4)

Header Image: Carolina Wren (Weather Note: Hurricane Idalia passed a couple of hundred miles west of us this past Tuesday and Wednesday. We experienced periodic intense rainfall and gusty winds up...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: arbuckle tract, camphorweed, carolina wren, florida yellow flax, green anole, lake wales ridge state forest, manyflower beardtongue, stinging nettle

The Ridge (3)

Header Image: Great Crested Flycatcher We had been spotted by a gang and were soon surrounded. Either side of the path was covered with dense Saw Palmetto as far as the...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: arbuckle tract, blackroot, blue dasher, blue-gray gnatcatcher, great crested flycatcher, lake wales ridge state forest, peelbark st. john's wort, pricklypear, sandweed, shrubby false buttonweed

Header Image: Brown-headed Nuthatch “Rubber Ducky!” We were meandering along the forest road toward Lake Godwin, a small lake surrounded by Longleaf Pine trees and Saw Palmetto understory. Gini’s sharp ears...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american bluehearts, american white waterlily, brown-headed nuthatch, carolina redroot, eastern tiger swallowtail, lake wales ridge state forest, pale meadowbeauty, pickerelweed, sweat bee, tufted titmouse

The Ridge (1)

Header Image: Florida Scrub Jay Wisps of fog hugged the pastures. Still just below the horizon, the sun was turning the eastern sky pink as we drove past the fields of...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: arbuckle tract, butterfly milkweed, carolina satyr, coastal plain dawnflower, downy woodpecker, florida alicia, florida scrub jay, lake wales ridge state forest, narrowleaf primrose-willow, whitemouth dayflower, yellow milkwort

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