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Go For The Birds, Enjoy The Rest

Header Image: Immature White Ibis Why does food taste better in the forest? I mean, a boiled egg is a boiled egg. Eaten at the dining table in comfortably conditioned air...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: belted kingfisher, bulltongue arrowhead, crab spider, downy woodpecker, eastern lubber grasshopper, golden silk spider, green lynx spider, horsefly, narrowleaf primrosewillow, skunkvine, spotted beebalm, string lily, white ibis

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

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