(Yes, we’re late to the party but we hope you are all well into living your best life as a new year brings so many new opportunities. Gini and I are both recuperating well. However, our rehabbers are not ready to release us back into the wild just yet. Soon! In the meantime, please enjoy a few images from a trip we made on September 11, 2024.) (Click on images to enlarge,… Read More
Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, carolina yellow-eyed grass, cloudless sulphur, eastern lubber grasshopper, golden silk spider, green swamp, little blue dragonlet, ornate bella moth, pine lily, purple false foxglove, purple loosestrife, red-femured spotted orbweaver, richloam wma, skyflower, sleepy orange, southern broken-dash, spurred butterfly pea, tall elephantsfoot, tufted titmouse, vanillaleaf, virginia buttonweed, withlacoochee state forest
A glimple of bright orange. “Is that a milkweed?” No. No it wasn’t. It was just after sunrise and we made a different choice today. This particular tract is a wildlife management area within the Withlacoochee River State Forest and consists of nearly 60,000 acres. We have developed a loose routine for exploring this vast area. There are three access points from the main road cleverly named “North”, “Central” and “South” Grade…. Read More
Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: brown-winged striped sweat bee, bumble bee, clustered bushmint, fork-tailed bush katydid, great golden digger wasp, green swamp, pale meadowbeauty, persimmon, skyflower, southern beeblossom, twin-spot skipper, virginia saltmarsh mallow, winged loosestrife, yellow fringed orchid
(Reminder: Click to enlarge, click again to zoom on images.) During the first week of September, Gini and I spent a morning roaming around the Richloam Wildlife Management Area (WMA). The location is part of the Withlacoochee River State Forest and is within a portion of the vast Green Swamp. It’s about a 30 minute drive north of our house so we visit frequently. As we enter the area, we pass by… Read More
Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, blue waterhyssop, common eastern bumble bee, crane fly, dorantes longtail, eastern amberwing, great black digger wasp, mole cricket hunter wasp, needham's skimmer, pearl crescent, pinebarren goldenrod, red-femured spotted orbweaver, richloam wma, skyflower, yaupon holly
Our Natural Places
Our Natural Places