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It’s a beautiful day in our neighborhood patch. The pink/purple/orange dawn sky was clear. Relative humidity was 45% (amazing for Florida!). No wind. Cool air invited one to breathe in deeply. Regular flights of commuters were right on schedule as flocks of White Ibises, Cattle Egrets and Double-crested Cormorants moved from roosts to feeding spots. Quartets of Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks whistled at us as they swooped low overhead. Just like the animals we… Read More
Are the drops on the leaves and blades of grass from dew or last night’s rainfall? It doesn’t matter. They reflect the morning sunlight as though a thousand prisms had been scattered about. Photographers are told the best time to experience the most favorable light outdoors is an hour before and after sunrise and sunset – “The Golden Hour”. This was more like “The Rainbow Hour”. Gini said the landscape looked like… Read More
Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: barred yellow, black-bellied whistling-duck, ceraunus blue, clouded skipper, dorantes longtail, four-spotted pennant, halloween pennant, limpkin, little yellow, needham's skimmer, ornate bella moth, rambur's forktail, tenoroc public use area, tricolored heron, variable dancer, whirlabout, white ibis, white m hairstreak
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