Great horned owl
By: Unknown photographer
From: Florida Wildlife
1959
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Florida panther in The Everglades National Park, Florida, U.S.
Photo by Rodney Cammauf, January 2005.
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Great horned owl by Ursula Dubrick
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Great horned owl in flight at the Everglades National Park, FL
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a male io moth Automeris io
sarasota, fl
march 2023
io moths are sexually dimorphic (meaning you can identify which are male and female) this one right here is bright yellow and has fuzzier antennae, which are the indicators of the male io moths.
this is a female io moth i saw in late january (in sarasota). she is a reddish-brown color and has thin antennae, which are indicators of the female io moth. most giant silkworm moths, the family saturniidae, males have fuzzier antennae than the females. however, io moths also have a color difference!!
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Great Egret Ardea Alba
4/6/2022 Orange County, Florida
Starting out this blog with my banner photo! This is one of my favorite photos I've ever taken, and one of my best in-flight photos (although this egret had just taken off, and so was not truly in flight). I watched this egret hunting on Lake Apopka, one of my favorite birding locations near Orlando.
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Osprey in SW Florida (Photo credit: M.A. Cubas, 2016)
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Merry belated Christmas everyone!!! I’ve been wanting to make a post for a while now but things have been pretty hectic between coming back from my trip to Florida and helping my family with last minute preparations for Christmas. After that my brain needed a few days to just be goop but I’m back now and want to talk about something pretty cool! So while I was in Florida me and my bf went to go visit this wetlands called Green Cay where you can walk around a board walk and see some pretty cool birds and reptiles. The day we went was pretty cold and cloudy (it was like that for most of the time I was there) so that meant there weren’t many reptiles out but it also meant there weren’t many people there either so we got to see a lot of really cool birds!
As soon as we pulled up to the parking lot we were seeing birds such as blue jays, northern mocking birds, common grackles (of course), a red-bellied woodpecker, mourning doves, and a bunch of squirrels. I know none of those species are rare so it makes sense that I would see them but I think it’s so cool to see species that I’m used to like blue jays, squirrels, and woodpeckers hanging out in palm trees.
(Red-Bellied Woodpecker)
Next, we went into the visitor center where they had a few exhibits with animals. The first was a display about native frogs Vs invasive frogs that had Cuban tree frogs and cane toads for the invasive species and green tree frogs, pig frogs, and southern toads for the natives. Sadly, I could only find the Cuban tree frog, cane toad, and pig frog since the glass was super foggy and the frogs like to hide anyways. They also had an American kestrel named Kilee and an Eastern screech owl named Oliver in little flight cages. Both birds were born in the wild but now have injuries that prevent them from flying so they have to live the rest of their lives at the center. The sign said Oliver had been hit by a car and for Kilee it just said she had problems with her wing feathers so idk what happened to her. There was also two tanks one that had turtles (peninsula cooters, Florida softshell, and Florida red-bellied) and a second tank that had some baby American Alligators.
(Pig frog, Cuban tree frog, Kilee the American kestrel, Oliver the Eastern screech owl, peninsula cooter, and American alligator babies)
In the actual park we saw lots of cool species since there weren’t many people out. Like I said no alligators though since it was pretty cold out but we did see plenty of iguanas, a massive Florida Softshell in the water, and a basilisk lizard sitting in a tree!
(Large male green iguana and either a brown basilisk or a green basilisk who isn’t showing off his coloration we couldn’t tell)
That’s all the pics I can add to this post so I’m gonna make a part 2 with all the birds we saw.
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American alligator
By: Unknown photographer
From: Florida Wildlife
1959
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Old or Young, Deer are Highly Attentive to the World
Old or Young, Deer are Highly Attentive to the World features a female white tailed deer and her young fawn at attention and then relaxing a bit. It explains why deer are so attentive.
Attention!
When you are a prey species, you develop all sorts of ways to avoid predators from changing colors like some lizards, to mimicking other species that are noxious like many insects, to feeding and living in groups like many birds and mammals. One thing that almost all prey species have in common, though, is a serious attentiveness to their surroundings. White tailed deer (Odocoileus…
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A rather old song about the vultures I used to see in Mayo Florida. A few out there would have heard me perform it in years gone by.
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saw this handsome gentleman a few days ago. it was a really cool experience as i've wanted to spot this species for a while.
polyphemus moth Antheraea polyphemus
tampa, fl
august 2023
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