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Late Summer Swelter

Header Image: Black-crowned Night Heron Florida has a unique combination of heat and humidity which can wilt the best of us at times. Late August typically provides us with afternoon thunderstorms...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, black-crowned night heron, blue-faced darner, brown pelican, cyrano darner, eastern amberwing, eastern glass lizard, eastern pondhawk, four-spotted pennant, halloween pennant, long-jawed orbweaver, northern mockingbird, orchard orbweaver, peruvian primrose-willow, rambur's forktail, ringed paper wasp, seepage dancer, slaty skimmer, swallow-tailed kite, tenoroc fma, two-striped forceptail

Escape To The Swamp

Header Image: Carolina Redroot (Lachnanthes caroliana) Wait. Don’t you mean “Escape FROM The Swamp”?? We review the news from around the corner and around the world. Local roads and businesses are...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bar-winged skimmer, blue dasher, carolina redroot, delta flower scarab beetle, eastern pondhawk, fiery skipper, four-spotted pennant, fungus, green heron, little blue dragonlet, needham's skimmer, obscure grasshopper, roseate skimmer, roundpod st. john's-wort, salt marsh morning glory, scarlet skimmer, slaty skimmer, viceroy, wild turkey, yellow garden spider

‘A Day of Sunshine’ *

Header Image: White-tailed Deer At Dawn The early morning mist was light and the woods were just waking. Rude Blue Jays did their best to ensure no one slept in. Nature...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, brown-legged grass-carrier wasp, colt creek state park, great egret, horace's duskywing, little blue heron, long-tailed skipper, pearl crescent, queen, red saddlebags, red-shouldered hawk, scrub palmetto, sleepy orange, white peacock, white-tailed deer, zebra swallowtail

Morning Buffet

Header Image: American Kestrel (Female) The sun had been up for half an hour as we made our way along the crushed shell road. Summer. We miss the numbers of migrating...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american kestrel, black-bellied whistling-duck, brown thrasher, cicada exuvia, eastern amberwing, eastern pondhawk, Florida, gulf fritillary, osprey, rambur's forktail, red-tailed hawk, ringed paper wasp, swallow-tailed kite

Swamp Road

Header Image: Pygmy Rattlesnake Hot. Wet. Oppressive. Taking a breath almost requires effort. In the time it takes to walk from the car to the trailhead, your clothes are soaked through...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: brown-headed nuthatch, clustered bushmint, eastern lubber grasshopper, familiar bluet, gray-green clubtail, little blue dragonlet, phaon crescent, prince baskettail, pygmy rattlesnake, richloam wildlife management area, rosy camphorweed, scarlet skimmer, swamp, tarflower, yellow milwort

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