(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) “Sounds like an alley-cat convention.” Gini’s hearing, which is significantly superior to mine, was picking up at least a dozen individual Gray Catbirds calling. During pre-migration, this species forms up into groups of one to a couple of dozen birds as they prepare to return to their northern breeding territory. After some far-flung adventures, it felt good to be in our familiar “patch”… Read More
Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, bluejacket, canadian toadflax, cucumberleaf sunflower, cutleaf evening primrose, eastern amberwing, eastern phoebe, eastern pondhawk, florida toadflax, gray catbird, long-jawed orbweaver, prairie/savanna iris, river sage, spicebush swallowtail, spider web, woodland false buttonweed, zebra longwing
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 which can help cool us down a bit, but at the expense of maintaining very high humidity. Wiping optics lenses for half an hour each morning becomes a reflex. In our area of central Florida, we average 115 days a year… Read More
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
Our Natural Places
Our Natural Places