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Lovely lethal lynxes
September 28, 2014 I’ve always been kind of partial to spiders, though at the same time just a bit intimidated by them. Although the vast majority of North American spiders are of no significant...
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Caniphilia
October 18, 2014 I don’t think it’s really necessary to coin this term; the love of dogs is a fundamental human condition. I wouldn’t trust a man who dislikes dogs as far as I could throw him. Such...
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Cold-blooded mothers
December 13, 2014 The great artist Haddaway asked “What is love?”; neither the Butabi brothers nor I have come up with a satisfactory answer to that question, but if love is judged by actions, then...
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Image Gallery: Okefenokee Swamp
January 3, 2015 My somewhat serious resolution for the upcoming year is to increase the frequency of Volusia Naturalist posts. To that end, I’m initiating the year with a new type of post – an image...
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Image Gallery: Northern Bobwhite
January 6, 2015 Yesterday while searching for a pair of great horned owls I had seen recently on a dead end road near Heart Island Conservation Area, I saw a covey of a half-dozen or so northern...
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Images: Emeralda Marsh Conservation Area
Saturday, February 16 From my first trip of the year to the wildlife drive at Emeralda Marsh Conservation area, near Eustis, last Saturday. The male (red stripe extending back from the base of the...
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Images: Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
March 3, 2015 I was fortunate to be able to photograph this yearling eastern diamondback yesterday. All images are clickable to view larger versions. The post Images: Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake...
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A splendid morning in the wetlands
Black-necked stilt snags a mosquitofish Click on any image to see a larger version. May 10, 2015 On Friday I visited the Lake Apopka Restoration Area’s newly opened 11-mile North Shore wildlife drive...
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Image Gallery: Return to Lake Apopka Restoration Area
The yellow flowers blanketing this pool are bladderworts, Utricularia sp., a carnivorous plant. I’ve never seen a concentration of bladderwort like this. May 18, 2015 All images are linked to larger...
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Nemesis no more
June 15, 2015 Every serious bird photographer who has been at it for a while has a nemesis bird or three. There’s a progression for the obsessed bird photographer – first you knock out all the easy...
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The nomads return
February 28, 2016 The idea of a nomadic lifestyle has great appeal to me, which is especially surprising considering what a homebody I am. On the infrequent occasions I take trips requiring more than...
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Daddy duties
Great crested flycatchers are monogamous, and strongly bonded. I nearly always see them traveling in pairs. That doesn’t mean this male is going to share his cicada with the mate, though. June 1, 2016...
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Learning snakes
August 20, 2016 As naturalists, what we observe and learn is directly connected to how we look. I spent more than a decade involved in field and laboratory studies of dusky pigmy rattlesnakes...
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What was that snake thinking?
September 6, 2016 I’m intrigued and mostly mystified by the cognitive processes going on in the minds of “lower” animals like snakes. Observing snakes in captivity and in the wild has at times left me...
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Of crows, cats and the preservation of sanity
November 11, 2016 All images are linked to larger, high-resolution versions (except for the featured image above). Click to see the larger version. Wednesday, November 9 didn’t start well. It’s fair...
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Thrush passages
December 30, 2016 It was late in December, the sky turned to snow All round the day was going down slow Night like a river beginning to flow I felt the beat of my mind go Drifting into thrush passages...
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