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The Coming and Going Season

Header Image: Mac Lake, Colt Creek State Park We have a new plan of action. Have food in your hand at all times. Preferably, have the food almost to your mouth...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, carolina chickadee, colt creek state park, eastern pondhawk, inchworm, monarch butterfly, northern parula, sandhill crane, sedge wren, white-eyed vireo

Out There

Header Image: Northern Flicker (Female) A trio of sleek Swallow-tailed Kites appeared above the cypress trees on the bank of the lake. Gini and I were enjoying a mid-morning brunch of...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: common grackle, eastern pondhawk, glossy ibis, gopher tortoise, northern flicker, red saddlebags, saw palmetto, snail, swallow-tailed kite, tenoroc public use area, white ibis

More Coasting Along

Header Image: Least Sandpiper Our trip took place on March 10 and we were a bit late in the season to see as many migratory waterfowl as we might have seen...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american avocet, american white pelican, fire on the mountain, great egret, great southern white, laughing gull, least sandpiper, little blue heron, long-billed dowitcher, longhorn beetle, merritt island nwr, sanderling, tricolored heron

Coast Post

Header Image: American Coot Chaos “Take a picture of THAT!” Gini doesn’t often point out potential subjects for the camera since I’m usually already clicking away, but when she issues a...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american coot, anhinga, blue-winged teal, caspian tern, great blue heron, greater yellowlegs, indian blanket, lesser yellowlegs, merritt island nwr, pied-billed grebe, purple thistle, roseate spoonbill, swamp sparrow, tricolored heron, whitie ibis

Resurgence and Transition

Header: Osprey The weather forecast advised we would encounter heavy fog and once it lifted around mid-morning skies would be mostly cloudy. We decided to go anyway. Perhaps we could get...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: limpkin, northern parula, osprey, palm warbler, tenoroc, tricolored heron, white ibis, yellow-rumped warbler

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