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Since today is Tuesday, 22 February 2022 and we switched drivers at 2:22 pm, it seemed appropriate to start off with a photo of the screen in our car. Sunrise this morning at Fernandina Beach. Venus is high to the upper right. We stopped to pick up treats for friends and I couldn’t resist BertContinue reading “South Carolina on “2s-day””

Out day with Sue and David started with a beautiful sunrise. Looking in the other direction towards the place that Sue rents in the winter. A green anole alone the greenway that runs through town. More anoles. An adult and juvenile White Ibis. In the afternoon, before dinner we went shopping.at Story & Song, aContinue reading “Our day at Fernandina Beach”

We were out looking for birds the other day and came to this sugarberry and palm that were side-by-side. That in itself was not very interesting. But the birds that were there were. There were two Loggerhead Shrikes in the sugarbush. The male was singing and the female arrived with nesting material. A better photoContinue reading “Looking for birds and a night filled with moths”

Sometime you just need to revisit locally common birds at a really great spot. Today we spent the morning with Tom and Kathi do just that, photographing birds, like this White Ibis. The last time we were here I didn’t spend enough time photographing Pied-billed Grebes. Today I did. The head feathers on this GreatContinue reading “Revisiting Apopka Wildlife Drive”

Our first day visiting our friends Tom and Kathi in Dunellon, Florida found us walking around the neighborhood looking at birds including White Ibises (AKA “long-billed lawn chickens”) before we headed out to the Goethe State Forest. We stopped at a small roadside slough where Tom had previously found an American Bittern and was pleasantlyContinue reading “Our first day in Dunnellon”

Somehow, the above image of two Christmas lichens merging into one seemed an appropriate find for Valentine’s Day. We spent the morning on a trail at Spruce Creek Preserve. The trails were easy walking, although sometimes muddy. But we managed to get in a nice walk. One of the little canals that drains to SpruceContinue reading “Spruce Creek, Florida for Valentine’s Day”

After the rain ender this morning we visited with friends Patsy and Ken. We had a wonderful walk on the beach where we saw all of the typical gulls, terns and sandpipers. we were able to watch several Northern Gannets over the ocean. Even the Laughing Gulls were tired of the rain. Many of theContinue reading “Daytona Beach for birds and a whale”

Red mangrove, flowers and fruits. A nice way to start our day. As we continued our walk today into the Eldora Hammock Trail, we found quite a few Shoestring ferns. This one was nearly two-feet in length. Moths have become a bigger part of our trip south this year. We havre been setting up lightsContinue reading “Another full day at Canaveral National Seashore”

I love when old cartoons pop up from the past. This one was from 2017. One of the first plants that I found at the Merritt Island Visitor Center was this beautyberry. It’s hard to believe that a berry can actually be that color. One of the birds I will be will be Ospreys. IContinue reading “Back to Merritt Island for more natural history fun”

Jacco, another friend from Ann Arbor came to visit Don and Loree for the day. Jacco, Don and I spent the morning driving the beach looking for bird. There were a lot of gulls and terns, like the Royal Tern, on the beach. But we had a special target to get for Jacco. The sunContinue reading “Looking for birds with another friend”