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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

Swamp Bouquet

Header Image: Pine Flatwoods We use the term “swamp” a lot on our blog. Many of our outings take us into or through areas which are defined as swamps. Other wetlands...

Category: Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: burmarigold, coastal plain willow, cypress dome, floating bladderwort, green swamp, oakleaf fleabane, pickerelweed, red maple tree, sandweed, sawtooth blackberry, showy milkwort, yellow jessamine

Header Image: Red-bellied Woodpecker Ingredients: Baby Lettuces (Green Leaf Lettuce, Green Oak Lettuce, Tango Lettuce, Lollo Rossa Lettuce, Red Oak Lettuce, Red Leaf Lettuce, Butter Lettuce), Baby Greens (Tatsoi, Mizuna, Red...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american kestrel, carolina desert-chicory, colt creek state park, cooper's hawk, great egret, marsh wren, mexican pricklypoppy, north american racer, northern waterthrush, red-bellied woodpecker, ruby-crowned kinglet, sedge wren, showy rattlebox, swamp sparrow, walter's viburnum

More Work, More Progress (Part Two)

Lake Apopka was essentially a dead lake in the 1960’s. Damage from pesticides and large-scale fertilizer runoff from muck farms was thought to be irreparable. To visit this area today is...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american alligator, american coot, anhinga, bald eagle, belted kingfisher, black-bellied whistling-duck, black-necked stilt, bulltongue arrowhead, burr marigold, great blue heron, lake apopka, peregrine falcon, red-bellied cooter, ring-necked duck, snowy egret, tricolored heron

Coming To Our Census – Part The First

Header Image: Burmarigold or Smooth Beggartick (Bidens laevis) Standing by the side of the road in the dark. Hands cupping our ears. Straining for the sounds of the night. “Whip, whip,...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american kestrel, american robin, audubon christmas bird count, belted kingfisher, blue-gray gnatcatcher, boat-tailed grackle, brown pelican, burmarigold, eastern phoebe, eastern towhee, great blue heron, killdeer, palm warbler, red cornsnake, red-bellied woodpecker, red-shouldered hawk, sandhill crane, wilson's snipe

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