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The Half-Full Glass

Header Image: Dawn at the lake. Early mornings in nature are consistent. Weather can cause variations in the routine, but creatures go about their daily business of survival regardless of whether...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: banded dragonlet, banded sphinx, black vulture, bronzed tiger beetle, cloudless sulphur, fern, great blue heron, little blue heron, red-bellied woodpecker, roseate skimmer, tricolored heron, tropical orb weaver, turkey vulture, variegated fritillary, white ibis

Colt Creek Critters

Header Image: Eastern Pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis) A pine forest is welcoming in so many ways. The unique green of the trees, the scent that has become synonymous with “fresh“, the cones...

Category: Fauna, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bar-winged skimmer, black-bordered lemon moth, colt creek state park, cuban brown anole, eastern pondhawk, great blue skimmer, little blue dragonlet, white-tailed deer, yellow garden spider

Dog Days of Summer Are Over – Siriusly

Header Image: Prothonotary Warbler It’s her fault, you know. She said: “Go birding. I have some crafting to catch up on.” I should have known to be wary. For some time...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: carolina wren, downy woodpecker, golden silk spider, great crested flycatcher, northern cardinal, orchard orbweaver, prairie warbler, prothonotary warbler, raccoon, red-bellied woodpecker, spicebush swallowtail, swallow-tailed kite, tenoroc public use area

Header Image: Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) Excitement is hoping aloud a diminutive damselfly will arise from its blade of grass and land on your windowsill. It happened last year about this...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, eastern pondhawk, fiery skipper, four-spotted pennant, great southern white, gulf fritillary, horace's duskywing, rambur's forktail, red-shouldered hawk, roseate skimmer, seepage dancer, tachytes, variegated fritillary, white peacock, zebra longwing

Forest In Summer

Header Image: Golden-winged Skimmer (Libellula auripennis) The sun has barely managed to get out of bed and already the cicadas are buzzing their raspy chorus in glorious surround-sound. Walking into a...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bar-winged skimmer, brown-headed nuthatch, eastern pondhawk, golden-winged skimmer, gray-green clubtail, northern cloudywing, palamedes swallowtail, slaty skimmer, spicebush swallowtail, wand loosestrife, wild turkey

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