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Slowing Down

Header Image: Leavenworth’s Tickseed (Coreopsis leavenworthii) It is hot. It is humid. It is summer. It is Florida, a sub-tropical location. We tend to arise early in order to be at...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american crow, blackeyed susan, champan's goldenrod, coreopsis, curtis' stargrass, dixe ticktrefoil, eastern tiger swallowtail, fungi, narrowleaf primrosewillow, nuttall's thistle, orange milkwort, ornate bella moth, pale meadowbeauty, partridge pea, phaon crescent, pine hyacinth, purple passionflower, red-banded hairstreak, robber fly, rose-rush, spurred butterfly pea, sunflower, whitemouth dayflower, winged loosestrife

‘Tis The Season

Header Image: Coreopsis I think Gini should have become a television meteorologist in Florida. She looks good, knows how to use her pointer finger (as a weapon, at times) and can...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american bird grasshopper, blue dasher, carolina desert-chicory, colt creek state park, coreopsis, eastern carpenter bee, eastern lubber grasshopper, great blue skimmer, green lynx spider, leavenworth's tickseed, little blue dragonlet, mischievous bird grasshopper, mock bishop's weed, nuttall's thistle, oakleaf fleabane, pearl crescent, phaon crescent, swallow-tailed kite

Beyond The Bridge

Header Image: Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis) Why does a plain boiled egg taste better when consumed under the branches of a huge oak tree in the middle of a forest where...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: atlantic grasshopper, blackeyed susan, blue dasher, bulltongue arrowhead, carolina chickadee, climbing aster, green anole, green tree frog, northern parula, palamedes swallowtail, tarflower, wild petunia, withlacoochee state forest, yellow colicroot

Escape From Lost Lake !

The Final Chapter Just as we thought all was lost at Lost Lake when we stumbled upon the remains of that alligator carcass which was likely a result of the poor...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american beautyberry, american bird grasshopper, brown thrasher, c-130, caeserweed, cloudless sulphur, dainty sulphur, florida carpenter ant, great crested flycatcher, lost lake, osprey, purple passionflower, rambur's forktail, red saddlebags, red-winged blackbird, swallow-tailed kite, thread-waisted wasp, trumpet honeysuckle

Finding Lost Lake

Header Image: Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) on Prickly Pear (Opuntia spp.) One of our birding “patches” which we often mention is the Tenoroc Fish Management Area. We mention it often because...

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator skeleton, apple snail, blue mistflower, brown anole, cloudless sulphur, ferns, four-petal st. johnswort, gulf fritillary, little blue dragonlet, lost lake east, mushroom, orchard orbweaver, rosy camphorweed, southern beeblossom, southern tussock moth, tenoroc fma

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