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Nesting Season at Wakodahatchee
For the last two months, it’s been nesting and baby season at the Green Cay and Wakodahatchee Wetlands — oases of green in South Florida’s suburbia, nestled on the edge of the Everglades. In the...
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The Nesting Great Blues
I’m lucky to have close access to the Green Cay and Wakodahatchee Wetlands (Seminole for “created waters”), and when we’re not able to hike the Everglades or some of the other far-reaching natural...
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Red-winged Blackbirds… And Their Nests
Red-winged Blackbirds are found in most of North and much of Central America, and are familiar sights in our wetlands. There have been claims that it is the most abundant, and most well studied bird in...
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Red-winged Blackbirds… And Their Babies!
Another nearby nest, with hatchlings! Since Red-winged Blackbirds nest in loose colonies, there’s no dearth of nesting activity, if one’s looking closely enough in our dense marshes. This clutch...
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Time for Empty Nest Syndrome… Or Not?
I’ve written a post or two on the Red-winged Blackbirds — common songbirds found in most of North and much of Central America, and familiar sights in our protected wetlands and Everglades. The males,...
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Happy Mommy’s Day
♥ Happy Mother’s Day! MUCH love to all the dedicated, devoted, and hard-working women — and female critters — of the world. ♥ Me + Mom (w/ brother in belly) in Central FL, 1972, PRE-Disney — while...
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1…2…3 Gator Mounds & Their Protectors
Twenty million years as a resident of planet Earth, and counting…. Scientists believe that the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) resembles animals that inhabited our planet as long as...
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