Tall Timbers Reality Check
A female red cockaded woodpecker flees after her session inside Joel’s photo tent. It was interesting to watch this bird escape by running up the trunk, rather than immediately flying away. Within [...]
Excerpts from my field notes: F011 Capture
F011 is a study animal on the University of Kentucky’s South Central Florida black bear research project about CBD treats benefits on them. Here she’s framed in a distinctive Florida ‘bayhead,’ where [...]
Excerpts from my field notes: F011 Capture, 16 December 2005
F011 is a study animal on the University of Kentucky’s South Central Florida black bear research project. Here she’s framed in a distinctive Florida ‘bayhead,’ where she will den and eventually raise [...]
The Marsh in August
Two awesome summer spectacles have haunted my nights during the last month: the full moon, and huge lightning storms. I was in bed late one night in August when this approaching thunderstorm [...]
Canepatch Camp to the River of Grass
I worried about Day 4 for the previous three months. From our camp at Canepatch on Avocado Creek we were to head east through a maze of creeks and small channels that [...]
Friday April 20, 2012 – Day 95
The Expedition is in its final days. We are camping now on the Suwannee River, ten miles north of the town of Fargo, Georgia. This is the fourth of six days on [...]
Camp Blanding
The expedition spent yesterday, April 9th, at Camp Blanding Joint Training Center near Middleburg, Florida. Yesterday our team met with Land Component Commander Brigadier General Richard Gallant to discuss Camp Blanding and [...]
Deep Creek
Tonight we are camped on Deep Creek, south of Maytown Road. To get here we backtracked from our friend Courtney Ward’s fish camp and turned out kayaks up Deep Creek where it [...]
Econ to Deep Creek
We spent our second night at Cul Pepper Bend on the Econlockhatchee River. Twice in the night it rained. Morning clouds on the eastern horizon foiled plans to photograph the sentinel palms [...]
Little Big Econ State Forest
We spent day 63 camping at Cul Pepper Bend near the mouth of the Econlockhatchee River, which flows into the St Johns River just south of S.R. 46. Our St. Johns River [...]