Rounding a bend at Sabal Palms Wildlife Sanctuary about noon, I startled to see a sizeable spotted cat with a large cub walking the trail
Author: M. Kathy Raines
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Lace-trimmed waters crash, swirling among jumbled blocks of granite, exploding in shimmering mist. Carpets of bright green algae glimmer in sunlight. Terns and pelicans criss-cross
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Glancing from my book, I delighted to glimpse the ballooning speckled pink dewlap, or throat fan, of a green anole as it did push-ups against
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Fall migration is in full swing, and the charming little hooded warbler is resting and filling up on Valley insects as it journeys from the
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I mistook the black bird swaying atop the hackberry for a great-tailed grackle. I didn’t recognize its chirruping “TEE-ho”, but then grackles do possess a
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“Kis-ka DEE! Kis-ka-DEE!” The great kiskadee, a feisty, strikingly-colored flycatcher, shrieked its name as it swooped through the foliage fringing a boardwalk at Sabal Palm