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Color explosion!
Since I missed the Sunflower festival at Sweetfield Farms last year, I had to go this year. In late May the zinnias at the farm were in full bloom. While the farm is mostly sunflowers (all boring...
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A trip to Chinsegut.
The bluebirds must nest here at Chinsegut Wildlife Park since there were some very young ones here the morning I visited in mid-May. The 2nd one looks like a juvenile. There were several behind the...
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Butterflies are free to fly.
I was so excited to see a hummingbird clearwing moth at the Florida Botanical Gardens in late May. They are really cool looking with that tail that looks like a brush. They hover and feed just a like...
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A two park morning
I stopped at nearby Folly Farms to see if I could find some hummingbirds in the butterfly garden. I only found butterflies but there were lots of yellow ones which I don’t see often. I caught this...
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Tiny critters at the botanical gardens
I think this lizard was flirting with me at the Botanical Gardens in Largo. Tiny critters were buzzing around the butterfly garden. A few of the butterflies in the butterfly garden. I was expecting to...
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The butterfly garden
In early September I went for a walk at Wall Springs Park near Tarpon Springs. I found some mallards swimming around the natural springs area but not many other birds. The small butterfly garden...
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A spring morning out
The water around the Safety Harbor fishing pier was really low the morning I was there in mid-March. There were a lot of shorebirds far out on a tiny spit. A few black bellied plovers, red knots and...
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A spring morning in late March
I don’t remember ever seeing this green caterpillar. I found it in the butterfly garden at Folly Farms in Safety Harbor in late March. I usually only see monarch or gulf fritillary caterpillars. I had...
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Lots of color at Bok Tower Gardens
Pretty flowers from my trip to Bok Tower Gardens in May. Tiny critters on the flowers. Butterflies were posing nicely for me. The flower beds were bursting with color! The birds were not plentiful...
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Sunny and stormy in the same morning.
I was out not very early one morning this summer and headed to Safety Harbor. I first stopped by the fishing pier hoping to see manatees. They were dredging the boat channel next to the pier and it...
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