Parks & Nature Connection
Parks & Nature Connection – a monthly series learning about Florida’s awesome flora and fauna! What I love about my job as a Recreation Program Specialist is connecting people to […]
Revisiting Crystal River Preserve State Park
Revisiting Crystal River Preserve State Park It’s been a busy couple of weeks, and taking some time to be in nature was much needed, and I got to do that […]
Revisiting Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive
Every time I visit places like these, I always think of how I would create ‘self-learning projects.’ At Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive, I would study and research as many water […]
Where Waders Fish
When you find a great spot around Florida’s freshwater or coastal areas to hang out for a while watching birds’ free dive or spear for a meal, it is a […]
Green Heron
Another very patient wading bird, the Green Heron. I actually timed this one. Just a couple of blinks, this bird stood still for over 3 minutes. That’s a long time, […]
Great Egrets and Wood Storks
Sadly with the lack of rain in Florida, many wading birds are pretty much forced to be in tight groups as they attempt to get whatever food they can as […]
Kids
I don’t often get a chance to photograph little ones in their natural habitat, but while on assignment I was able to capture some video and photography of these, sweet […]
Double-Crested Cormorant (Juveniles)
Unlike the Anhinga who spear their food with their sharp straight beak the Double-Crested Cormorant hooks it’s prey. Juveniles have pale white/brown chests with patches of darker brown and the […]
Little Blue Heron (Juvenile)
It’s is amazing how wildlife kids transform, how this juvenile little blue heron is pure white and within a year will turn all blue. The photo above is one of […]
Black-crowned Night Heron
Recently in Tampa, Lettuce Lake Park has a great boardwalk for nature photographers and while observing the Black-crowned Night Heron, I learned something. https://photos.smugmug.com/Nature-Wildlife/Nature-Videos/Birds/i-WMGnPXr/0/0753cf23/1280/Black-Crowned%20Night%20Heron-1280.mp4 This is just an observation guess… […]
The Great Egret
Simple and Elegant is how I describe the Great Egret https://photos.smugmug.com/Nature-Wildlife/Nature-Videos/Birds/i-SNdGpRd/0/4062a921/1280/Great%20Egret2-1280.mp4 I am currently working on creating more video… it will be an outing to outing process as I […]
Florida Nature 