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Header Image: Swamp Chaos This is a follow-up to our last post about flowers. There was a tremendous outcry from a massive amount of our followers protesting the fact no bird...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, bar-winged skimmer, blue dasher, cattle egret, cedar waxwing, colt creek state park, dorantes longtail, eastern bluebird, eastern pondhawk, groundselbush beetle, gulf fritillary, halloween pennant, little blue heron, ornate bella moth, palm warbler, phaon crescent, red-shouldered hawk, red-winged blackbird, white-tailed deer, wild turkey

Spring Floral Collection

Header Image: Field of Purple Passionflowers We spent a couple of hours the other day ambling through one of our our favorite venues, Colt Creek State Park. Twenty minutes from the...

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bulltongue arrowhead, camphorweed, common yellow woodsorrel, cutleaf evening primrose, florida hedgenettle, gulf fritillary, lyreleaf sage, mexican pricklypoppy, oakleaf fleabane, purple passionflower, purple thistle, small venus' looking-glass, spiny sowthistle, western honey bee

And, Now, For Her Next Trick —

Header Image: Roosting Cedar Waxwings Zucchini. Taste a slice. The word you are trying to avoid saying is “bland“. That’s why it is served with other stuff. Breading, cheese, onions, disguised...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american white pelican, belted kingfisher, black saddlebags, blue dasher, butterfly, carpenter bee, cedar waxwing, damselfly, dragonfly, eastern phoebe, halloween pennant, prince paskettail, rambur's forktail, savanna iris, spring

Header Image: Clouds In The Marsh “Should I wear my sweatshirt?” It’s that time of year here in sub-tropical central Florida. Important fashion decisions are made difficult by seasonal ambiguities. Yesterday,...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american white pelican, blue-gray gnatcatcher, brown thrasher, common yellowthroat, dorantes longtail, gray catbird, pine warbler, rain lily, rosary pea, spring, swamp sparrow, white-eyed vireo, yellow-bellied sapsucker

That Perfect Blend

Header Image: Picnic Lake At Sunrise A liter of water and about 60 grams of coffee beans, for me, is a pleasant way to begin a morning. One of my favorite...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american kestrel, american robin, cedar waxwing, double-crested cormorant, eastern phoebe, migration, northern flicker, osprey, palm warbler, red-tailed hawk, savannah sparrow, sawtooth blackberry, sepia baskettail, snowy egret, spring, tricolored heron, white ibis

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