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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

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(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

In Search of Tyrants

“All men would be tyrants if they could.” – Daniel Defoe One of the special treats we enjoyed when living in Texas was the year around presence of Scissor-tailed Flycatchers. Their...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue-gray gnatcatcher, ornate bella moth, palm warbler, peninsula cooter, sandhill crane, scissor-tailed flycatcher, sunset, western kingbird

Around The Lakes

(Click to enlarge images. Click again to zoom.) It was mid-November and plans were in progress for Thanksgiving. Family and food. Not enough of the former and too much of the...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: anhinga, bald eagle, blue-gray gnatcatcher, brown pelican, cloudless sulphur, eastern carpenter bee, eastern phoebe, great egret, green lynx spider, little blue heron, northern cardinal, northern mockingbird, red-shouldered hawk, variegated fritillary

Falling Toward Winter

(Click to enlarge images, click again to zoom.) Winter solstice begins in two days. That may not mean too much, temperature-wise, to us here in central Florida, but in many areas...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american beautyberry, carolina satyr, chapman's blazing star, colt creek state park, eastern bluebird, eastern phoebe, four-petal st. john's-wort, goldenrod, gray wall jumper, gulf fritillary, house wren, narrowleaf sunflower, northern cardinal, prairie warbler, swamp sparrow, tropical checkered-skipper, white ibis, whitetailed deer, wood stork

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