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The Stink in Arbor Lakes
On a recent walk to the clubhouse, I spied octopus-like tentacles rising out of the wood chipped gardens from subterranean eggs. The tentacles were cheese doodle in texture and color. The interior of the tentacles were coated with olive-brown slime. It is a stinkhorn fungus. If you see it, DO NOT touch it! It has […]
Cracker Cattle Drive in Florida
“Here they come,” a woman calls out to the crowd gathered along Norvell-Bryant Highway to see a re-enactment of Florida history at the 2014 Southern Heritage Festival. A quarter mile west, cattle emerge from the Withlacoochee Trail flanked by cattlemen and women on horses and travel towards the festival grounds. Traffic stops as the cattle […]
Lemurs, Kinkajous, and Kangaroos, Oh Wow!
A black and white ruffed lemur saunters over to me, sits in my lap and graciously accepts a grape from my hand. This primate’s paw is baby soft. A baby red-ruffed lemur leaps onto my shoulder, looks for a snack, then leaps off onto a sofa. It is cute and playful. No, I am not […]
One Hundredth Blog!
This will be blog number 100 since I created naturechirp a few years ago. I thought I would take this time to post my favorite moments with wildlife since moving here to Florida. From raccoons making night raids on the hummingbird feeder to soaring kites and gliding carnivorous snails, there certainly has been many […]
Hammerheads in Arbor Lakes
As you may be aware, Anne can be seen in the neighborhood picking up earthworms from the sidewalks and roads and tossing them back onto the lawns. To her even a worm is a living creature and when she has the opportunity to save life she will. And this day was no different. Walking […]
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