Posted on December 4, 2021
by Linda
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We have been in Florida for six years and the place is full of snakes. Yet, we have never seen an eastern diamondback rattlesnake. Regis was at the Guana-Tomoto-Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTM NERR) today and was looking to photograph a spider and… Continue Reading “Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Finally”
Category: UncategorizedTags: arenaria interpres, calidris minutilla, Crotalus adamanteus, Dasypus novemcinctus, eastern diamondback rattlesnake, eastern gray squirrel eating a mushroom, egretta tricolor, estuary, fog over the Tolomato river and salt marsh in northeast florida, GTM NERR, guana-tolomato-matanzas national estuarine research reserve, least sandpiper, morning, Palencia boardwalk, ruddy turnstone closeup, saltmarsh, snake, spider in a web, sun, sunrise, tricolored heron
Posted on August 25, 2020
by Linda
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I went for a walk on the beach today in Anastasia State Park. I saw this baby shorebird. I think it is a baby ruddy turnstone, but would love to hear from anyone who thinks it is something else. This little one was very… Continue Reading “Baby Shorebird”
Category: UncategorizedTags: arenaria interpres, baby shorebird, beach, bird begging, coast, juvenile royal tern, royal tern, ruddy turnstone, shore, Thalasseus maximus, young bird
Posted on August 30, 2019
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We just spent two days at Gamble Rogers State Park. We had a campsite on the beach and we could launch our kayaks across the road on the intracoastal waterway. It was lovely. Regis found a vacant spot for two nights at this campground… Continue Reading “Gamble Rogers State Park”
Category: UncategorizedTags: anhinga, arenaria interpres, black-bellied plover pluvialis squatarola, Brown Pelican, cataptrophorus semipalmatus, egretta thula, gamble rogers state park, ghost crab, lightning, ocypodinae, Osprey, pelecanus occidentalis, red flag, ruddy turnostone, Snowy Egret, sunrise, Willet, yellow flag on beach for medium hazard