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I am a Self Taught/ Amatuer Photographer living in North-Central Florida and I love photographing Florida Nature, Wildlife, Sunrises, Sunsets etc. Hope you LIKE it.

11/09/2026

Tufted Titmouse —
You can tell by:
Crest: that little pointy tuft on top of its head
Color: soft gray on top, white underneath, with peachy-tan sides
Face: big, dark, round eye with a little black forehead patch
Bill: short and stubby, perfect for cracking seeds

They're year-round regulars here, super chatty, and they love hanging around oaks and ferns just like this — usually traveling with chickadees and warblers in little mixed flocks.

11/09/2026

Yellow-throated Warbler

11/09/2026

Palm Warbler — Setophaga palmarum

This one loves being on the ground, just like I caught it.

Look for:
Brownish-olive back and head
Pale belly with a little yellow under the tail — you can see that yellow flash here
Faint streaks on the chest
Thin, dark bill

They're everywhere in Florida in winter, hopping around on lawns and trails. If you watch it for a second, you'll see it constantly wagging its tail up and down — that's the classic Palm Warbler tell.

11/07/2026

Yellow-throated Warbler —
Look for:
Bright yellow throat — that's the giveaway
Black face with a white eyebrow and white stripe under the eye
Gray back with black streaks on the sides
White belly

They love hanging around palms and pines, picking bugs out of the bark and dead fronds just like this one is doing. They're here year-round in Florida, but they get a lot more active and noticeable in winter.

11/07/2026

What you're looking at isn't a fuzzy mushroom, it's a mushroom that got taken over by another fungus.

The mushroom underneath looks like an old, upturned milkcap / Russula-type — tan cap, white gills, growing in the leaf litter.

That white cotton-candy stuff all over it is a parasitic mold, most likely Bonnet Mold — Spinellus fusiger. It's super common in Florida after rain / heavy dew.

It starts as tiny white pins on the cap
Then it explodes into that fluffy white mycelium you see
It basically eats the mushroom from the outside in and stops it from making spores

That's why the cap is all curled up and collapsed — the mold got it.

Don't eat it, and don't touch it too much, just leave it to finish its weird little life cycle. It's a sign you've got nice damp, healthy soil there.

11/07/2026

Black & White Warbler

11/07/2026

Red-Bellied Woodpecker

11/05/2026

American Sweetgum — Liquidambar styraciflua

It's the tree with:
The star-shaped, 5-pointed leaves
Those spiky green balls — the "gumballs" — hanging off the branches

They turn brown and drop in the fall, and they're famous for being painful to step on barefoot!

It's native here in Florida and gets beautiful red/purple fall color.

11/05/2026

Black Racer

11/05/2026

Black Racer slithering through the hedges…

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