Field Photography | Range Tracking

Colorful Seekers of Rot and Decay

2019/05/20 by terranovabay

Most try to avoid being around the dead but these Common Green Bottle Flies can’t get to a fresh corpse fast enough where they will lay their eggs which hatch within hours so their progeny can dine on rotting flesh. The mortal remains of a freshly killed Eastern Mole, circumstances unknown, found along the shaded trail to the Boathouse at the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area was quite the magnet for innumerable Green Bottle Flies […]

Categories: Nature • Tags: Blow Fly, Common Green Bottle Fly, Eastern Mole, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, FMEL, IFAS, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Lucilia sericata, Mole, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Scalopus aquaticus

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PINWR Sunday: Big Stick

2019/05/19 by terranovabay

An Osprey can dream big about the size of the nest he is going to build. Even collect big material for it. Unfortunately, whether this oversize dwelling will hold together is another story. Jumping to the end, it did not hold together. A more modest nest made of more modest sized material, though, turned into a big success at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. From the OspreyWatch project.

Categories: Nature • Tags: Osprey, Pandion haliaetus, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, PINWR

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Ranch Saturday: Cattle Moments

2019/05/18 by terranovabay

A cow, left, and a bull share some quality time at sunset at Treasure Hammock Ranch. From the Florida Cattle Ranch project.

Categories: Scenery • Tags: bull, cattle, cow, Treasure Hammock Ranch

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Expectant Ibis

2019/05/15 by terranovabay

The bright red legs and face of this White Ibis indicates it is breeding season for this bird.

Categories: Nature • Tags: Eudocimus albus, White Ibis

South of the Border Elvis

2019/05/13 by terranovabay

Elvis truly is everywhere! Elvis Presley – rightfully, an Elvis Presley clock – looks down upon the showroom floor at South of the Border, located along I-95 in South Carolina just south of the North Carolina border. Some would say that this place is a “tourist trap” though who would not want an Elvis clock? This was a middle-of-the-night stop that found the place closed. The photo having to be taken through the store window. From the slide archive.

Categories: Dog's Tail • Tags: Elvis, Elvis Presley, I-95, North Carolina, Pedro, South Carolina, South of the Border, Tourist Trap

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PINWR Sunday: Mourning Dove

2019/05/12 by terranovabay

A Mourning Dove perched amidst the branches of a dead tree at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. An example of the Refuge protecting even one of the most humblest of species. From the OspreyWatch project.

Categories: Nature • Tags: Mourning Dove, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, PINWR, Zenaida macroura

Ranch Saturday: Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

2019/05/11 by terranovabay

Brush piles are a great place to look for little birds, especially insect eaters that find plenty to forage among decaying wood like this Blue-gray Gnatcatcher at Treasure Hammock Ranch. From the Florida Cattle Ranch project.

Categories: Nature • Tags: Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Polioptila caerulea, Treasure Hammock Ranch

Nectar Eater

2019/05/09 by terranovabay

It is nice to like a variety of foods and this wasp at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area is chewing through these flowers to get at the nectar. Not being strictly vegetarian, those fearsome mandibles can dispatch other insects, especially caterpillars, when the wasp feels the need for meat.

Categories: Nature • Tags: Nectar, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Wasps

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