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This historic house in St. Augustine, Florida, is known for its iconic gated entry. [Flickr Explore #63, June 21, 2021.]
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I find the iPad very difficult to take pictures with.. I've done a few but this will be the first one posted. The iPad does take very fine images if you are prepared to go crazy getting there.. I'm certainly not there yet but encouraged to keep trying. My thanks to Brenda for her patience in helping me through it all.
Sure seen allot of pelicans in Florida. Started to head for home and one of my crowns in my mouth came off. We made it just in GA and I finally found a dentist tha would see me in the am and hopefully they can just cement it back on.
We were very surprised to find a racoon living in a palm tree. This may not look like a palm because of liana but it is a palm. After showing off like this he went up the canopy and went to sleep.
Canon FD300mm f/2.8
Part of Florida home in wealthy residential section. Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Marion Post Welcott, photographer, 1939
Original picture:
www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8c09813/
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
© Marion Post Walcott 1939
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2022
A Florida Scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) perches on a branch in the oak scrub of Florida. They are the only species of bird endemic to Florida and one of 15 endemic to the continental United States. With a conservation status of vulnerable, they need to be protected.
The Zebra heliconian, is a species of butterfly belonging to the subfamily Heliconiinae of the family Nymphalidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae.
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File Name: NZ6_8728
Created with: 6 boat bumpers, 1 trash can, 1 plastic basket,
1 irrigation pipe, 1 industrial motor belt, 30 toothbrushes, 21 tops of oil quarts, 2 off-road bicycle tires, 1 buoy, 2 truck tires, 3 rubber docks.
*The iconic Florida alligator is in trouble; many plastics contain chemicals that affect hormones important for the reproduction of alligators.
*Some Florida lakes and waterways are so polluted, the mortality rate of alligator eggs is as high as 50 percent.
FloatSam Fauna
Florida Scrub Jay ~ The Florida Scrub-Jay was classified as a Threatened species by the state in 1975, and by the federal government in 1987, but these designations have failed to halt the population decline. By 1993, Florida Scrub-jay populations had declined an estimated 90%, to about 10,000 individuals. Since then, further, severe declines have been documented in some Scrub-jay populations in Brevard County and elsewhere. ~ Florida Audubon
Florida scrub jays are omnivorous and eat a wide variety of acorns, seeds, peanuts, insects, tree frogs, turtles, snakes, lizards, and young mice. They have also been occasionally observed to eat other birds' eggs or nestlings, but this occurs rarely. They routinely cache thousands of acorns a year, burying them just beneath the surface. The acorns are typically buried in the fall and consumed during the winter and spring. Acorns that are forgotten or missed may germinate, making the Florida Scrub-Jay an effective agent for the dispersal of a variety of oak trees. ~ Wikipedia