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birding to infinity – and beyond (II)

It was getting warm. Comfortable. Not hot. Blue skies, salt water and the constant sounds of birds enveloped us in a cocoon of contentment. We exited East Gator Creek Road after...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american avocet, american coot, american white pelican, american wigeon, black skimmer, blue-winged teal, canada goose, common green darner, damselfly, dragonfly, fungus, green heron, lesser scaup, little blue heron, merritt island nwr, northern flicker, ornate pennant, parrish park, rambur's forktail, redhead, ruddy turnstone, tricolored heron

Around The Lakes

(Header Image: Lake Kissimmee pre-dawn, light fog.) “It’s something different.” A phrase guaranteed to increase a birder’s pulse rate. “Yellow face, dark eye line, greenish on the back, white wing-bars, white...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: band-winged dragonlet, black-throated green warbler, common yellowthroat, four-spotted pennant, great blue heron, green heron, indigo bunting, lake kissimmee, little blue heron, peninsula cooter, red-headed woodpecker, snail kite, swamp rosemallow, three lakes wma, twin-spot skipper

peace in the swamp

(Header image: Peace River swamp.) “The Butcher Bird’s been busy!” This was the third insect Gini had spotted stuck on a fence barb. The Butcher Bird is a nickname for members...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american redstart, anhinga, black vulture, black-and-white warbler, black-throated blue warbler, blue-ringed dancer, eastern pondhawk, fungus, mosaic peace river park, northern parula, peace river, phantom darner, ruby-throated hummingbird, wild turkey, worm-eating warbler

Nature’s Timeline

Header Image: Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) A definition of a “timeline” might be: a sequence of related events arranged in chronological order and displayed along a line. Therefore, “Nature’s Timeline” could...

Category: Birds, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, barn swallow, black and yellow argiope, cloudless sulphur, colt creek state park, common buckeye, dorantes longtail, eastern kingbird, fiery skipper, fungus, green tree frog, horace's duskywing, little blue dragonlet, puddling, purple martin, sleepy orange, spotted orbweaver, swallow-tailed kite, tropical checkered-skipper, variegated fritillary

Patching things up

(Header image: Common Ground Dove.) The conversation usually goes something like: “Is there somewhere you would like to go tomorrow?” Gini responds, “Anywhere is fine with me.” “Anywhere” will typically be...

Category: Birds, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: carolina satyr, clouded skipper, common ground dove, eastern meadowlark, needham's skimmer, ornate bella moth, red-tailed hawk, royal river cruiser, spicebush swallowtail, tenoroc fma, wandering glider, white peacock

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