Too Many Hummingbirds
Seven One Way
Cattle Egrets at the Lower Lake
Cutwater
Black Skimmers start nesting on Lido Beach in April. Year-round, the birds skim the water with their elongated lower mandibles, snapping shut on surface-swimming prey. No other bird feeds like this, dipping bill in flight to cut a thin surface line a hundred yards running. Their bulky snouts are tangerine-toned turning to black at the […]
Murmuration on the Connecticut River
During a few August and September weeks, hundreds of thousands of tree swallows collect in vast murmurations at the mouth of the Connecticut River. With metallic blue-green wings and white breasts, tree swallows trace the air for insects. After feeding, the thick avian sky drops to rest on shoreline phragmites where the birds cling through […]
Celeria Rising
Friends of Myakka (at Deep Hole)
Another
To the West
Cycad Anole
The Other White Meat
Dead pig rarely lasts two days in the Florida prairie, not even scraps. Vultures home in on carrion within hours of that final hog’s breath, staking out the carcass until only big bones are left. I don’t often see a pig in the wild — live or dead — but live ones invariably flee. Feral […]