Florida | Our Natural Places

Morning In The Wetlands

I gave up wearing hiking boots. For one thing, my days of going on lengthy hikes over rough terrain are in my rear view mirror. Water-resistant linings and treatments for preventing...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bandanna of the everglades, black-crowned night heron, blue dasher, bumble bee, common buttonbush, eastern gama grass, eastern pondhawk, great blue heron, great egret, itchepackesassa creek wetlands, marsh rabbit, pickerelweed, purple gallinule, queen, rambur's forktail, sachem, scarlet skimmer, seven sisters

Can’t See The Flowers For The Bees

“Did you see that?” “Nope.” This is a frequent exchange between my brown-eyed beauty and myself. I often must gently remind her that when two of us are present, although we...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: dainty sulphur, feather-legged scoliid wasp, great blue skimmer, loggerhead shrike, orchard orbweaver, poey's furrow bee, robber fly, shrubby false buttonweed, western honeybee, white peacock, winged loosestrife, yellow garden spider

Stuck In Summer

We have turned back the clock to mid-July. I guess it is a testament of sorts to how busy we have been that there are several trips which have gone unreported....

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american kestrel, eastern amberwing, green lynx spider, gulf fritillary, northern cardinal, roseate skimmer, snowy egret, spicebush swallowtail, swallow-tailed kite, variegated fritillary

The Ridge (4)

Header Image: Carolina Wren (Weather Note: Hurricane Idalia passed a couple of hundred miles west of us this past Tuesday and Wednesday. We experienced periodic intense rainfall and gusty winds up...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: arbuckle tract, camphorweed, carolina wren, florida yellow flax, green anole, lake wales ridge state forest, manyflower beardtongue, stinging nettle

The Ridge (3)

Header Image: Great Crested Flycatcher We had been spotted by a gang and were soon surrounded. Either side of the path was covered with dense Saw Palmetto as far as the...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: arbuckle tract, blackroot, blue dasher, blue-gray gnatcatcher, great crested flycatcher, lake wales ridge state forest, peelbark st. john's wort, pricklypear, sandweed, shrubby false buttonweed

Our Natural Places

Exploring - Naturally