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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

We Now Return To Our Regularly Scheduled Program

Header Image: Red-shouldered Hawk Summer is in full bloom here in gorgeous central Florida! We have high temperatures, so you won’t feel chilly, really high humidity to cleanse the pores of...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: beetle, coffee-loving pyrausta, cypress tree, dorantes longtail, downy woodpecker, eastern pondhawk, gray squirrel, green heron, little leaf notcher, moonflowers, needham's skimmer, red-shouldered hawk, whirlabout, white-eyed vireo

Stay Curious

Header Image: Hummingbird Clearwing (Hemaris thysbe) “Those are some tall thistles!” My mistress of understatement was right. Soon, I would be threading my way through that sticky forest and would discover...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bandana of the everglades, bar-winged skimmer, blue dasher, bumble bee, carolina desert-chicory, carolina saddlebags, colt creek state park, cypress tree gall, eastern bluebird, eastern lubber grasshopper, flower beetle, great crested flycatcher, hummingbird clearwing, mexican pricklypoppy, palamedes swallowtail, pickerelweed, red saddlebags, swamp rose, white-tailed deer, wild turkey, zebra heliconian

“Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.”*

Header Image: Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) on Brazilian Vervain (Verbena brasiliensis) Sweet, tart and juicy slices of tangerine were refreshing as we rested on the shore of the lake a couple...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bald eagle, brazilian vervain, carpenter bee, eastern amberwing, eastern towhee, gulf fritillary, indian blanket, lantana, man-of-the-earth, osprey, pricklypear, red saddlebags, showy rattlebox, tenoroc public use area, water moccasin, wild bushbean, xylocopa

Crooked River: The Beginning

Header Image: Pine Flatwoods It can be exhilarating to be prone in the damp grass early in the morning just after sunrise observing the waking moments of what is likely the...

Category: Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, bluejacket, carolina wild petunia, citrine forktail, cloudless sulphur, coral bean, crooked river, green anole, green swamp, least skipper, lizard's tail, palamedes swallowtail, pearl crescent, peruvian primrosewillow, savanna iris, starrush whitetop, striped mud turtle, swamp rose, withlacoochee river

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