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Slipping Into 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

Myakka Morning

Header Image: Park Road We didn’t have much time to spend exploring today, but at Myakka River State Park, any time at all is well worth the trip. This is one...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, damselfly, epiphytes, fungi, myakka river state park, savannah sparrow

Drive-By Birding

Header Image: Lake Shore When is the best time to go birding? Early in the morning. Or – When the birds are feeding. Or – During migration. Or – Late in...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american alligator, american kestrel, common grackle, common ground dove, eastern bluebird, glossy ibis, moonflower, pied-billed grebe, tenoroc fma, white ibis, yellow-rumped warbler

Blissful Bucolic Balm

Header Image: Tricolored Heron “Ah-choo!” “Bless you.” Gini and I sneezed our way through the first two weeks of December. Intense testing, analyses and expert medical opinions told the sad tale....

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: black-and-white warbler, blue-headed vireo, bridgewater, bur-marigold, ceraunus blue, downy woodpecker, house finch, northern cardinal, tenoroc fma, tricolored heron

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