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Marsh Madness 2/3

(Click images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) “All that water looks really shallow but if you wade out in it you would probably completely disappear in the soft mud.” I’m...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american white pelican, gulf fritillary, hooded merganser, indian blanket, marsh, merritt island nwr, northern shoveler, roseate spoonbill, tricolored heron, white ibis, wood stork

Morning Refuge 1/3

(Click images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) In the near-dark, Common Gallinules were gabbling and the calls of distant gulls confirmed we were near the coast. Weather reporters, excuse me,...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: blackpoint wildlife drive, bonaparte's gull, bottlenose dolphin, glossy ibis, great egret, indian blanket, little blue heron, merritt island nwr, osprey, shite ibis, snowy egret, sunrise, tricolored heron

Colt Creek State Park

(Click images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Standing still, eyes closed, head tilted one way then another. I hear the distant call of a Red-shouldered Hawk, the guttural “caw-caw-cawwww” of...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, ceraunus blue, colt creek state park, coral bean, gopher tortoise, gulf fritillary, hover fly, red-banded hairstreak, red-shouldered hawk, rice button aster, river otter, savannah sparrow, shortleaf wild coffee, sunshine mimosa, tree swallow

Early Birds

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) There is something to be said for sleeping in. It feels good. Especially when the days are cold. Lounging about sipping hot...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: eastern phoebe, great blue heron, limpkin, little blue heron, osprey, pied-billed grebe, snowy egret, sunrise

Return With Us Now — *

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Yesterday we were sweeping up the place after our extravagant holiday reveling. There, among the bits of discarded shrimp, crumpled paper hats,...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: band-winged dragonlet, carolina spreadwing, cassius blue, ceraunus blue, climbing aster, downy woodpecker, great blue heron, great southern white, groundsel tree, long-tailed skipper, rambur's forktail, red-shouldered hawk, roseate skimmer, sharp-shinned hawk, sleepy orange, variegated meadowhawk, yellow-rumped warbler

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