The Tri-colored herons at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Rookery are filled with character. It was early June and the first round of nestlings were getting larger and nearly ready to leave the nest. Like Curly, Moe and Larry of the Three Stooges, they sat squawking and squabbling. […]
The Wading Bird Rookery at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm is a wonderful place to get up and personal with nesting wildlife. When I had visited in early December, the marsh was a ghost town. With just the alligators hissing in the muddy waters, I thought that surely […]
It was dawn and the sun was slowly rising behind me warming the cool, damp sand below me. It was low tide along the Matanzas Inlet and there were several tide pools left behind The light was glowing at first, casting its golden sheen upon the water. Minnows […]
The Sandwich Tern can be found along the southeastern coast of the United States, Brazil and in the Caribbean. A rather unusual tern with its bill heralding a yellow tip. This was the first time I had set eyes on one. Laying on the sand at St. Augustine […]
I couldn’t say it any better than David Gessner at Orion Magazine. When You See a Skimmer by David Gessner.
From the tropical rainforest of Costa Rica to the powder soft sand of St. Augustine Beach, Florida it’s been quite the whirlwind. The birds here are just as wonderful as Costa Rica, although not nearly as many species. Needless to say, it didn’t take me long to get […]
Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. Ayn Rand
Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell […]
There are still a few places on the Florida eastern coast that allows you to drive on the beach. Crescent Beach just south of St. Augustine Beach is one of those places. With its wide open beach, particularly during low tide, and powder soft sand that squeaks […]
Emily Carter Mitchell ~ Nature as Art 