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A Peaceful Easy Morning

Header Image: Skin Pattern, Water Moccasin There is nothing quite like a large yellow flower in a field of brown grass to grab one’s attention. Prickly Pear blooms dotted the landscape...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bald eagle, eastern meadowlark, eastern pondhawk, halloween pennant, prickly pear, red saddlebags, red-bellied woodpecker, red-shouldered hawk, red-tailed hawk, water moccasin

Park In The City

Header Image: White Ibis Honest. She literally pushed me out the front door. “Go! Shoot some birds. Take your time!” I went. Reluctantly. The shooting was good. Time is a precious...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american alligator, american coot, limpkin, little blue heron, mallard/mottled duck, pied-billed grebe, seven sisters, white ibis

Foggy Daze

Header Image: Lake In Fog “It’s so quiet.” That from the pretty lady with the good hearing. We were enjoying breakfast at one of our regular lakeside spots having spent the...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, black-and-white warbler, cattle egret, double-crested cormorant, eastern pondhawk, eastern towhee, fog, osprey, showy rattlebox, tricolored heron

More Coasting Along

Header Image: Least Sandpiper Our trip took place on March 10 and we were a bit late in the season to see as many migratory waterfowl as we might have seen...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american avocet, american white pelican, fire on the mountain, great egret, great southern white, laughing gull, least sandpiper, little blue heron, long-billed dowitcher, longhorn beetle, merritt island nwr, sanderling, tricolored heron

Coast Post

Header Image: American Coot Chaos “Take a picture of THAT!” Gini doesn’t often point out potential subjects for the camera since I’m usually already clicking away, but when she issues a...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american coot, anhinga, blue-winged teal, caspian tern, great blue heron, greater yellowlegs, indian blanket, lesser yellowlegs, merritt island nwr, pied-billed grebe, purple thistle, roseate spoonbill, swamp sparrow, tricolored heron, whitie ibis

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