Tag Archive | Nature
If You Like Squirrels, Don’t Read This!
“Caw, caw… caw, caw, caw,” Anne and I hear during our daily morning walk along Lake Tsala Apopka. There are two crows are calling from a large lower branch of a very old and very large live oak tree draped in Spanish moss. I snap a few photographs even though the crows are in the […]
Wood Storks Share the Rookery with Great Egrets
Wood storks are not the only birds constructing nests in the Florida cypress swamp. The crayon green shrub thickets that border the swamp are dotted in white by dozens of egrets standing on saw palmetto and elderberry bushes building their nests and sitting on nests incubating eggs. A male egret wades in shallow water examining […]
A Warm Winter’s Day in Florida
Anne and I woke up on this January morning in Florida to temperatures in the low 70s. This is even unusually warm for a Florida winter. We decided to take advantage of the nice day by heading over to the Gulf coast to Fort Island Gulf Beach. Wearing shorts and short sleeve shirts, we grabbed […]