Insects | Our Natural Places

That Perfect Blend

Header Image: Picnic Lake At Sunrise A liter of water and about 60 grams of coffee beans, for me, is a pleasant way to begin a morning. One of my favorite...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american kestrel, american robin, cedar waxwing, double-crested cormorant, eastern phoebe, migration, northern flicker, osprey, palm warbler, red-tailed hawk, savannah sparrow, sawtooth blackberry, sepia baskettail, snowy egret, spring, tricolored heron, white ibis

Myakka Morning

Header Image: Park Road We didn’t have much time to spend exploring today, but at Myakka River State Park, any time at all is well worth the trip. This is one...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, damselfly, epiphytes, fungi, myakka river state park, savannah sparrow

Blissful Bucolic Balm

Header Image: Tricolored Heron “Ah-choo!” “Bless you.” Gini and I sneezed our way through the first two weeks of December. Intense testing, analyses and expert medical opinions told the sad tale....

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: black-and-white warbler, blue-headed vireo, bridgewater, bur-marigold, ceraunus blue, downy woodpecker, house finch, northern cardinal, tenoroc fma, tricolored heron

Header Image: Carolina Wren Once again, that mee-tee-oh-rah-low-gist was absolutely correct. Partly cloudy with temperatures about the same as yesterday. I missed my calling. We pulled into the management area just...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: band-winged dragonlet, belted kingfisher, blue-gray gnatcatcher, carolina wren, carpenter mimic leaf-cutter bee, common ground-dove, common yellowthroat, downy woodpecker, flesh fly, hyacinth glider, northern cardinal, northern parula, ovenbird, palm warbler, red-eyed vireo, red-shouldered hawk, regal jumping spider, roseate skimmer, scarlet skimmer, tenoroc fish management area, tufted titmouse, wandering glider, white-eyed vireo, zebra swallowtail

Simplification – A Goal

Header Image: Great Blue Heron We married young. Too young, “they” said. With our 20-20 hindsight, Gini and I have determined we married at the exact time the universe had scheduled...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, blue-gray gnatcatcher, brown thrasher, great blue heron, lake parker park, northern flicker, purple gallinule, white ibis, yellow-throated vireo

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