(Click images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Standing still, eyes closed, head tilted one way then another. I hear the distant call of a Red-shouldered Hawk, the guttural “caw-caw-cawwww” of American Crows, trumpeting Sandhill Cranes, a raucous Blue Jay, the hammering of a woodpecker on a dry limb. Gini’s superior hearing adds a calling White-eyed Vireo, the clear whistle of a Tufted Titmouse, a Carolina Wren, an upset squirrel and the… Read More
Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, ceraunus blue, colt creek state park, coral bean, gopher tortoise, gulf fritillary, hover fly, red-banded hairstreak, red-shouldered hawk, rice button aster, river otter, savannah sparrow, shortleaf wild coffee, sunshine mimosa, tree swallow
Header Image: Leavenworth’s Tickseed (Coreopsis leavenworthii) It is hot. It is humid. It is summer. It is Florida, a sub-tropical location. We tend to arise early in order to be at our destination near sunrise. After a couple of hours, we return home. It is hot. Our pace during the summer is slower than in cooler months. This has advantages. Take our walk last week, for example. We spent about an hour-and-a-half… Read More
Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american crow, blackeyed susan, champan's goldenrod, coreopsis, curtis' stargrass, dixe ticktrefoil, eastern tiger swallowtail, fungi, narrowleaf primrosewillow, nuttall's thistle, orange milkwort, ornate bella moth, pale meadowbeauty, partridge pea, phaon crescent, pine hyacinth, purple passionflower, red-banded hairstreak, robber fly, rose-rush, spurred butterfly pea, sunflower, whitemouth dayflower, winged loosestrife
Our Natural Places
Our Natural Places