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Header Image: Swallow-tailed Kite “Are you a birder?” The question was simple enough. My answer was quick: “Yes.” Once upon a time, I considered myself a “bird watcher”, but somewhere along...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: common grackle, dainty sulphur, robber fly, slaty skimmer, swallow-tailed kite, tenoroc fma, tricolored heron, yellow-eyed grass

(Header Image: Great Blue Heron On The Nest) I keep thinking if I arrive at sunrise the view will be spectacular, what with all that “Golden Light” photographers continuously seek. Unfortunately, the light still...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, cypress clubtail, eastern ribbon snake, gray catbird, great blue heron, leaf-footed bug, moonflower, northern flicker, osprey, rambur's forktail, regal darner, tenoroc PUA

Flashback! “Spring Preview”

(Header Image: Female Painted Bunting) Time. It doesn’t wait around for us. It seems we were enjoying New Year’s dinner and all of sudden we remarked how wonderful Easter Dinner was!...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: american robin, american white pelican, bald eagle, black vulture, brown pelican, eastern phoebe, gray catbird, lake crago park, moon, northern mockingbird, osprey, painted bunting, red-shouldered hawk, roseate spoonbill, sandhill crane, wood stork, yellow-rumped warbler

Birding to infinity – and beyond (III)

(Header Image: Shorebirds At Dusk) There are some occasions when birding becomes secondary. (GASP!!) This was one of those times. The birds were numerous, it was exciting to see species we...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: american avocet, black skimmer, dunlin, glossy ibis, great egret, horseshoe crab, least sandiper, lesser yellowlegs, merritt island nwr, northern harrier, ring-billed gull, sanderling, semipalmated sandpiper, snowy egret, sunset, western sandpiper

birding to infinity – and beyond (II)

It was getting warm. Comfortable. Not hot. Blue skies, salt water and the constant sounds of birds enveloped us in a cocoon of contentment. We exited East Gator Creek Road after...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american avocet, american coot, american white pelican, american wigeon, black skimmer, blue-winged teal, canada goose, common green darner, damselfly, dragonfly, fungus, green heron, lesser scaup, little blue heron, merritt island nwr, northern flicker, ornate pennant, parrish park, rambur's forktail, redhead, ruddy turnstone, tricolored heron

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