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I’m having coffee. This handsome fellow (red bellied woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus) is having dried mealworms.
September 8, 2026 at 11:49 AM
The only monarch I support is Danaus plexippus.
July 28, 2026 at 10:13 PM
We have gopher apple (Geobalanus oblingifolius)!
July 9, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Paddling into the sunrise on still waters. North River, Everglades National Park.
July 7, 2026 at 12:05 PM
“I’m thinking of giving up the vegan lifestyle.” Catopsis berteroniana is considered to be a proto-carnivore. Pearl Bay area, Everglades National Park. #plants #bromeliads #Everglades
June 22, 2026 at 12:41 PM
A week ago, starting my annual off-season solo canoe trip in the ‘Glades, heading out through the Hell’s Bay trail. #canoeing #Everglades
June 22, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Wormvine (Vanilla barbellata),
a “leafless” orchid, native in tropical Florida. It “crawls” through the mangroves in the Everglades.
Lostmans 5 River, Everglades National Park.
May 31, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Great to be back in Montréal, banger of a race.
May 25, 2026 at 12:18 AM
The green and the brown of it. Green Anolis carolinensis and the brown Anolis sagrei which has nearly extirpated the native green here in Florida.
#lizards #reptiles
April 4, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Happy Telecaster Tuesday! 75 years of the Tele. There are many electric guitars to want, but this is the only one you actually need.
#Telecaster #electricguitar
March 24, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Coffee for me, dried mealworms for my companion on the deck. Happy #Wrensday
February 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
This guy was hunting in my front yard today. ‘Twas a great egret (Ardea alba L.) and lizards beware!
#Birds
February 7, 2026 at 6:12 PM
“I’m not ‘eadless, was only preening!”
January 25, 2026 at 2:21 PM
The path across the bridge was blocked by the dread Headless Limpkin (Aramus guaranua decapitus) #birds
January 25, 2026 at 2:19 PM
We’re in the middle of the 6th great extinction, our country entering a new dark age, but Dana Cooper put on a great house concert last night.
#livemusic
January 11, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Starting the year with a blue (Cyanocitta cristata) attitude on a frosty morn. Good luck to us all in 2026, we’ll need it.
January 1, 2026 at 1:15 PM
And this morning, coffee for me, mealworms for the wrens.
December 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Happy last #Wrensday of the year! Looking back at this year’s brood on the nesting platform.
December 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The dread bobtail wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus miamensis “nubbins”). Carolina wren molting tail feathers. Happy #wrensday #birds
December 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No AI, no photoshop, just how it looked in #Shetland
A place that stays with you.
September 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
@canoeing.bsky.social Sharing Avocado Creek with a manatee, Everglades National Park
June 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
@canoeing.bsky.social Leaving the mangroves of Bottle Creek for the sawgrass of Main Street, Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park
June 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
@canoeing.bsky.social Sunrise Joe River, Everglades National Park
June 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Sharing Avocado Creek with a manatee, Everglades National Park
June 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM