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A solo visit after work nearby. Because of the intense sun and heat, I had intended to stay along the nature trail, which is mostly shaded. But when I noticed that most of the southeastern portion of the WEA was recently burned -- and it looks GREAT! -- I decided to encircle as much as I could while avoiding a lot of direct sun exposure. I walked the southern nature trail to the powerlines, then walked north, then circled the burn clockwise. I returned to the nature trail and took it back to Jet. All duplicate species -- including the grasshoppers, the buckeyes, and the swallowtails -- represent different individuals; grasshoppers were abundant on the sandy road under the powerlines. The weather at the start was sunny and 94 degrees ("feels like" 100!), with a light breeze. I left at 1526 and headed home.

A solo visit after work nearby. Because of the intense sun and heat, I had intended to stay along the nature trail, which is mostly shaded. But when I noticed that most of the southeastern portion of the WEA was recently burned -- and it looks GREAT! -- I decided to encircle as much as I could while avoiding a lot of direct sun exposure. I walked the southern nature trail to the powerlines, then walked north, then circled the burn clockwise. I returned to the nature trail and took it back to Jet. All duplicate species -- including the grasshoppers, the buckeyes, and the swallowtails -- represent different individuals; grasshoppers were abundant on the sandy road under the powerlines. The weather at the start was sunny and 94 degrees ("feels like" 100!), with a light breeze. I left at 1526 and headed home.

A solo visit after work nearby. Because of the intense sun and heat, I had intended to stay along the nature trail, which is mostly shaded. But when I noticed that most of the southeastern portion of the WEA was recently burned -- and it looks GREAT! -- I decided to encircle as much as I could while avoiding a lot of direct sun exposure. I walked the southern nature trail to the powerlines, then walked north, then circled the burn clockwise. I returned to the nature trail and took it back to Jet. All duplicate species -- including the grasshoppers, the buckeyes, and the swallowtails -- represent different individuals; grasshoppers were abundant on the sandy road under the powerlines. The weather at the start was sunny and 94 degrees ("feels like" 100!), with a light breeze. I left at 1526 and headed home.

A solo visit after work nearby. Because of the intense sun and heat, I had intended to stay along the nature trail, which is mostly shaded. But when I noticed that most of the southeastern portion of the WEA was recently burned -- and it looks GREAT! -- I decided to encircle as much as I could while avoiding a lot of direct sun exposure. I walked the southern nature trail to the powerlines, then walked north, then circled the burn clockwise. I returned to the nature trail and took it back to Jet. All duplicate species -- including the grasshoppers, the buckeyes, and the swallowtails -- represent different individuals; grasshoppers were abundant on the sandy road under the powerlines. The weather at the start was sunny and 94 degrees ("feels like" 100!), with a light breeze. I left at 1526 and headed home.

A solo visit after work nearby. Because of the intense sun and heat, I had intended to stay along the nature trail, which is mostly shaded. But when I noticed that most of the southeastern portion of the WEA was recently burned -- and it looks GREAT! -- I decided to encircle as much as I could while avoiding a lot of direct sun exposure. I walked the southern nature trail to the powerlines, then walked north, then circled the burn clockwise. I returned to the nature trail and took it back to Jet. All duplicate species -- including the grasshoppers, the buckeyes, and the swallowtails -- represent different individuals; grasshoppers were abundant on the sandy road under the powerlines. The weather at the start was sunny and 94 degrees ("feels like" 100!), with a light breeze. I left at 1526 and headed home.

A solo visit after work nearby. Because of the intense sun and heat, I had intended to stay along the nature trail, which is mostly shaded. But when I noticed that most of the southeastern portion of the WEA was recently burned -- and it looks GREAT! -- I decided to encircle as much as I could while avoiding a lot of direct sun exposure. I walked the southern nature trail to the powerlines, then walked north, then circled the burn clockwise. I returned to the nature trail and took it back to Jet. All duplicate species -- including the grasshoppers, the buckeyes, and the swallowtails -- represent different individuals; grasshoppers were abundant on the sandy road under the powerlines. The weather at the start was sunny and 94 degrees ("feels like" 100!), with a light breeze. I left at 1526 and headed home.

A solo visit after work nearby. Because of the intense sun and heat, I had intended to stay along the nature trail, which is mostly shaded. But when I noticed that most of the southeastern portion of the WEA was recently burned -- and it looks GREAT! -- I decided to encircle as much as I could while avoiding a lot of direct sun exposure. I walked the southern nature trail to the powerlines, then walked north, then circled the burn clockwise. I returned to the nature trail and took it back to Jet. All duplicate species -- including the grasshoppers, the buckeyes, and the swallowtails -- represent different individuals; grasshoppers were abundant on the sandy road under the powerlines. The weather at the start was sunny and 94 degrees ("feels like" 100!), with a light breeze. I left at 1526 and headed home.

A solo visit after work nearby. Because of the intense sun and heat, I had intended to stay along the nature trail, which is mostly shaded. But when I noticed that most of the southeastern portion of the WEA was recently burned -- and it looks GREAT! -- I decided to encircle as much as I could while avoiding a lot of direct sun exposure. I walked the southern nature trail to the powerlines, then walked north, then circled the burn clockwise. I returned to the nature trail and took it back to Jet. All duplicate species -- including the grasshoppers, the buckeyes, and the swallowtails -- represent different individuals; grasshoppers were abundant on the sandy road under the powerlines. The weather at the start was sunny and 94 degrees ("feels like" 100!), with a light breeze. I left at 1526 and headed home.

A solo visit after work nearby. Because of the intense sun and heat, I had intended to stay along the nature trail, which is mostly shaded. But when I noticed that most of the southeastern portion of the WEA was recently burned -- and it looks GREAT! -- I decided to encircle as much as I could while avoiding a lot of direct sun exposure. I walked the southern nature trail to the powerlines, then walked north, then circled the burn clockwise. I returned to the nature trail and took it back to Jet. All duplicate species -- including the grasshoppers, the buckeyes, and the swallowtails -- represent different individuals; grasshoppers were abundant on the sandy road under the powerlines. The weather at the start was sunny and 94 degrees ("feels like" 100!), with a light breeze. I left at 1526 and headed home.

A solo visit after work nearby. Because of the intense sun and heat, I had intended to stay along the nature trail, which is mostly shaded. But when I noticed that most of the southeastern portion of the WEA was recently burned -- and it looks GREAT! -- I decided to encircle as much as I could while avoiding a lot of direct sun exposure. I walked the southern nature trail to the powerlines, then walked north, then circled the burn clockwise. I returned to the nature trail and took it back to Jet. All duplicate species -- including the grasshoppers, the buckeyes, and the swallowtails -- represent different individuals; grasshoppers were abundant on the sandy road under the powerlines. The weather at the start was sunny and 94 degrees ("feels like" 100!), with a light breeze. I left at 1526 and headed home.

A solo visit after work nearby. Because of the intense sun and heat, I had intended to stay along the nature trail, which is mostly shaded. But when I noticed that most of the southeastern portion of the WEA was recently burned -- and it looks GREAT! -- I decided to encircle as much as I could while avoiding a lot of direct sun exposure. I walked the southern nature trail to the powerlines, then walked north, then circled the burn clockwise. I returned to the nature trail and took it back to Jet. All duplicate species -- including the grasshoppers, the buckeyes, and the swallowtails -- represent different individuals; grasshoppers were abundant on the sandy road under the powerlines. The weather at the start was sunny and 94 degrees ("feels like" 100!), with a light breeze. I left at 1526 and headed home.

With Don Fraser, Clint Gibson, and many others; a nocturnal moth survey organized by Virginia "Ginny" Hamilton of The Nature Conservancy. There were two moth arrays about 600 feet apart. This was the second array, set up in an open flatwoods site adjacent to a marsh. While most of us were fixated on the moth array, Clint Gibson -- of course, who else? -- finds a frigging Gopher Frog maybe 80 feet away, sitting calmly at the entrance to a (n abandoned?) Gopher Tortoise burrow! A lifer for everybody, I think (if only by sight; I had heard Gopher Frogs at Archbold Biological Station in the 1990s, but had never seen one; some others had also heard them previously but had never seen one).

A lifer amphibian!

With Don Fraser; iNatting the Forest before a nocturnal moth survey at Tiger Creek Preserve. We were hoping for some Lake Wales Ridge endemic plants like Nolina, Zizyphus, and Dicerandra, but we found none of those. We left at 1503 and headed north, stopping along the way to iNat.

With Don Fraser; iNatting the Forest before a nocturnal moth survey at Tiger Creek Preserve. We were hoping for some Lake Wales Ridge endemic plants like Nolina, Zizyphus, and Dicerandra, but we found none of those. We left at 1503 and headed north, stopping along the way to iNat.

With Don Fraser; iNatting the Forest before a nocturnal moth survey at Tiger Creek Preserve. We were hoping for some Lake Wales Ridge endemic plants like Nolina, Zizyphus, and Dicerandra, but we found none of those. We left at 1503 and headed north, stopping along the way to iNat.

This female was with several young poults. I turned a corner in the trail, and there they were -- we scared the living bejeezus out of each other. The female ran away while the poults ran and hid. She was still looking for poults 20 minutes later.

With Don Fraser and Alice Mary Herden; our fourth stop of the day. The temperature at 0940 was sunny, 80 degrees ("feels like"84), and breezy. This spot was where all the Bidens with all the skippers were in Sep 2023; it's now all Black-eyed Susan. The plants are very dusty from the road; I found this large caterpillar (3+ inches) on a Dahoon Holly that was next to Red Maples; the caterpillar was originally mimicking -- perfectly! -- a holly branch.

We left here around 1150 and continued toward Bald Eagle Sink.

With Don Fraser, Christine Rowland, and two others; a visit to determine the feasibility of preserving a 5-acre wooded homestead in perpetuity. The weather at the start was sunny, 75 degrees ("feels like" 75), and breezy. Don and I left at 1320 and headed to lunch at Denny's.

With Don Fraser, Christine Rowland, and two others; a visit to determine the feasibility of preserving a 5-acre wooded homestead in perpetuity. The weather at the start was sunny, 75 degrees ("feels like" 75), and breezy. Don and I left at 1320 and headed to lunch at Denny's.

With Don Fraser, Christine Rowland, and two others; a visit to determine the feasibility of preserving a 5-acre wooded homestead in perpetuity. The weather at the start was sunny, 75 degrees ("feels like" 75), and breezy. Don and I left at 1320 and headed to lunch at Denny's.

With Don Fraser, Christine Rowland, and two others; a visit to determine the feasibility of preserving a 5-acre wooded homestead in perpetuity. The weather at the start was sunny, 75 degrees ("feels like" 75), and breezy. Don and I left at 1320 and headed to lunch at Denny's.

At least 4 juveniles percjed on the same tree trunk at once.

With Don Fraser, Christine Rowland, and two others; a visit to determine the feasibility of preserving a 5-acre wooded homestead in perpetuity. The weather at the start was sunny, 75 degrees ("feels like" 75), and breezy. Don and I left at 1320 and headed to lunch at Denny's.

With Don Fraser, Christine Rowland, and two others; a visit to determine the feasibility of preserving a 5-acre wooded homestead in perpetuity. The weather at the start was sunny, 75 degrees ("feels like" 75), and breezy. Don and I left at 1320 and headed to lunch at Denny's.

With Don Fraser, Christine Rowland, and two others; a visit to determine the feasibility of preserving a 5-acre wooded homestead in perpetuity. The weather at the start was sunny, 75 degrees ("feels like" 75), and breezy. Don and I left at 1320 and headed to lunch at Denny's.

With Don Fraser, Christine Rowland, and two others; a visit to determine the feasibility of preserving a 5-acre wooded homestead in perpetuity. The weather at the start was sunny, 75 degrees ("feels like" 75), and breezy. Don and I left at 1320 and headed to lunch at Denny's.