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Once upon a time (stop me if you’ve heard this one), our primary consideration in planning an excursion into the Great Outdoors was limited to researching what birds might be found...
Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: black and yellow mud dauber, blue dasher, butterfly, colt creek state park, common buttonbush, dragonfly, great crested flycatcher, leaf-footed bug, leavenworth's tickseed, little blue heron, northern parula, pale meadowbeauty, purple passionflower, red-spotted purple, spurred butterfly pea, squirrel tree frog, wandering glider, wild turkey
Summer is enveloping us. Walking out the front door is like entering a huge sauna. The humidity turns clothing into a heap of sopping wet rags. Camera and binocular lenses fog...
Anticipation. One dictionary definition describes it as “pleasurable expectation”. As my memory cells fade into unreliability, a few still meld and conjure up examples of “pleasurable expectation”. Fishing trips. When I...
Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, cuban brown anole, eastern amberwing, eastern pondhawk, four-spotted pennant, green anole, hardee lakes park, needham's skimmer, pileated woodpecker, purple gallinule, red-bellied woodpecker, robber fly, roseate skimmer, slaty skimmer, sweat bee
“Sausage, grits and cantaloupe okay with you?” Once upon a time, there was a beautiful brown-eyed young woman who blinked those sublime eyes in disbelief when I revealed I did not...
Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: butterfly, carolina wren, ceraunus blue, dragonfly, eastern lubber grasshopper, four-spotted pennant, needham's skimmer, prince baskettail, red-shouldered hawk, rookery, saddle creek park, swallow-tailed kite, tufted titmouse, white ibis, yellow-billed cuckoo, yellow-crowned night heron
“Ooohhh, look at that one! Can you believe the colors? Wow!!” Okay. I know this may come as a shock to some, but we are not actually “kids”. I mean, chronologically....
Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: american alligator, black-bellied whistling-duck, blue dasher, dragonflies, eastern pondhawk, four-spotted pennant, glossy ibis, great egret, green heron, lake parker park, little blue heron, mallard, pied-billed grebe, purple gallinule, red-bellied woodpecker, tricolored heron
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