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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

Light Drawing

Header Image: Least Bittern Clear skies and the wind had subsided. Two hours before sunset. I had a sudden notion to wander along the western shore of the lake where the...

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: american alligator, anhinga, black-bellied whistling-duck, glossy ibis, least bittern, limpkin, little blue heron, purple martin, snail kite, tricolored heron, white ibis

Super Flower Blood Moon Eclipse

Header Image: Moonflowers (Ipomoea alba L.) 5/15/22, 9:09 p.m. 5/15/22, 10:55 p.m. 5/15/22, 11:48 p.m. 5/16/22, 00:31 a.m. Enjoy your search for a natural place and come back for a visit!

Category: Photography Tags: lunar eclipse

No Work Patch Work

Header Image: Black-necked Stilt When is a birding patch not a patch? The word “patch” denotes something small. Talk to a birder about their local patch and it will usually turn...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, black-necked stilt, cedar waxwing, common buckeye, eastern amberwing, florida softshell turtle, freshwater mussels, great blue heron, great egret, great southern white osprey, lesser yellowlegs, norhtern mockingbird, red-bellied woodpecker, snowy egret, tenoroc public use area, tricolored heron, wood stork

Header Image: Halloween Pennant – (Celithemis eponina) Our daily human existence is boring, busy, chaotic, emotional and all things in between. We have jobs, chores and responsibilities. Our precisely organized schedules...

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, bluejacket, bridgewater, eastern pondhawk, ebony jewelwing, halloween pennant, sawtooth blackberry, snowy egret, tenoroc fma, white-eyed vireo

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