Tag: Florida
Posted on November 24, 2020
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I’ve been enjoying taking pictures of the pollinators on the plants in my garden. It’s easy to spot butterflies and bumblebees in the garden and see some of their details with the naked eye. I find it hard to get a good look at… Continue Reading “More Pollinators”
Category: wildlifeTags: aloysia virgata, anartia jatrophae, anolis carolinensis, atlides halesus, butterfly with missing wing parts, cloudless sulfur butterfly, Dielis plumipes, Feather-legged scoliid wasps, firecracker plant, Florida, great purple hairstreak butterfly, green anole, insects, phoebis sennae, pollinators, rosinweed, russelia equisetiformis, silphium integrifolium, sweet almond bush, tachinine fly, tribe tachnini, white peacock butterfly
Posted on August 5, 2020
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After Amarillo, Texas we stayed in the KOA in Abilene, Texas. It was nice. We moved on to the KOA in Canton, Texas and picked up lots of grasshoppers along the way. They were all over the grill of the motorhome and even in… Continue Reading “In Florida, but not Home Yet”
Posted on March 22, 2020
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Regis and I went to the Masters Tract Stormwater Treatment Facility in Hastings, Florida to photograph and video wildlife. Here are a couple pictures along with a short video. At the end of the video is a blurry tri-colored heron. (I have to work… Continue Reading “freshwater marsh”
Posted on March 18, 2020
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It’s been troubling to watch that mama bluebird is the only one feeding her three chicks in our backyard nest box. Daddy bluebird checks out the box occasionally, but is not contributing to the care and feeding of the little ones. I don’t know… Continue Reading “What’s up with daddy bluebird?”
Posted on October 17, 2019
by Linda
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I’ve been healing nicely after my surgery to have cancer removed from my face. I stayed home most of the first week and tried to organize my photos. I made great progress. We had a particularly nice sunrise at the beginning of this week,… Continue Reading “Splish Splash, Taking a Bath”
Posted on September 28, 2019
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The Guy Harvey Resort in St. Augustine, Florida sponsored a Sups and Pups event today which was a dog surfing contest to benefit K9s for Warriors. Dart would never do this. My favorite was this young man bonding with his dog while waiting their… Continue Reading “Sups and Pups”
Posted on September 22, 2019
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My plea is to ask people to use balloons and fishing gear responsibly. Regis, Sooz, and I tried to help a bird that was entangled in fishing line. St. Johns Audubon Society was notified about the bird via Facebook. We were unable to find… Continue Reading “More Salt Marsh and a Plea”
Category: UncategorizedTags: bird entangled in balloon, bird entangled in plastic, boardwalk, dart, distressed animal, distressed bird, dog in flowers, Florida, great egret in flight, GTM reserve, marsh grass, Palencia salt marsh, royal tern, royal tern entangled in plastic, salt marsh, salvia, shetland sheepdog, St. Johns County Audubon Society
Posted on June 7, 2019
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I need to make a correction to an earlier post. I said we had a Rat Snake/Corn Snake in the house. We had a corn snake in the house. Rat Snakes are different snakes. I am working to learn Florida snakes and need to… Continue Reading “Rat Snake”
Category: UncategorizedTags: barge pushing a crane on the intracoastal waterway, Florida, flying insect on flower, grasshopper on a twig, guana river, horseshoe crab shell, Pantherophis alleghaniensis, racoon, rat snake, salt marsh, snake, tolomato river
Posted on June 1, 2019
by Linda
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We had a great time kayaking the Silver River and had more to share than we could in the last post. In this post, I want to share some of the pictures of other wildlife we saw. My favorite experience on the trip was… Continue Reading “More Pictures from the Silver River”
Category: UncategorizedTags: aix sponsa, alligator, alligator mississippensis, american alligator, anhinga, anhinga anhinga, animal behavior, baby common gallinule, bird behavior, egretta caerulea, fledglings, Florida, flying insect on flower, fort king paddling trail in silver springs state park, gallinula galeata, juvenile double-crested cormorant, juvenile wood duck, little blue heron on silver river, nesting birds, phalacrocorax autitus, silver river, silver springs state park, wildlife, wood duck
Posted on May 24, 2019
by Linda
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Over the last two days, I saw a couple situations where plastic is having a negative impact on wildlife. In the picture above, the duckling in the back has a plastic ring caught around its head. These ducklings are in our neighborhood. I was… Continue Reading “Plastic”
