Recent Posts Tagged With 'wildlife'

• I’m Working Outside Again

  Posted on Wednesday February 27th, 2008 at 19:05 in wildlife, reptiles, landscapes, mammals, conservation through destruction

  And we all know what that means: photos! The first comes from the Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve, and in this photo you can see all the elements of its name: the Apalachicola River, big and muddy from a ...

• ID-a-day Project: White-Eyed Vireo

  Posted on Wednesday October 10th, 2007 at 21:29 in wildlife, birds, id

  Not the bird itself, although I heard several1 in the same area, but its nest: 1. The white-eyed vireo’s song is often represented as “Chuck! Pick up your beer!” but there are variations. Copyri...

• ID-a-day Project: Gulf Fritillary

  Posted on Saturday September 29th, 2007 at 15:10 in wildlife, bugs, id, butterflies

  I worked in a big empty field all day Friday. About the only thing I saw moving was the butterflies. So: Copyright © 2007 Bethany Harvey ---Related Articles at Born Liar:We're having a special on spiders this...

• We’re having a special on spiders this week.

  Posted on Wednesday September 19th, 2007 at 20:38 in wildlife, bugs

  Three for the price of one! Banana Spider (Nephila clavipes) Black and Yellow Argiope (Argiope aurantia) Redfemured Spotted Orbweaver (Neoscona domiciliorum) Copyright © 2007 Bethany Harvey ---Related Arti...

• Swallow-Tailed Kite

  Posted on Tuesday August 28th, 2007 at 17:00 in wildlife, birds

  I love seeing swallow-tailed kites -- they're so sleek and graceful -- but in the area we're working lately I see them all the time and the excitement has worn off. But this time I was lucky enough to see a whole family of three. The baby seemed fasc...

• Moving Day for Tortoises

  Posted on Tuesday July 31st, 2007 at 22:04 in wildlife, post, reptiles, turtle people

  Today, we got to see some results of our labor. Some gopher tortoises were brought up from another base, down in Melbourne, and we had to find empty burrows to move them to at Camp Blanding....

• Contrary to popular belief, not all flora and fauna here are out to get you.

  Posted on Saturday July 21st, 2007 at 20:02 in plants, wildlife, reptiles, snakes, turtle people

  I got to work on a prescribed burn Thursday, which was immensely fun and entertaining, but unfortunately that was the day I forgot my camera. So I have no photos of the 30-foot tower of flame I caused in the middle of the woods. Too bad, because it w...

• If nothing else, my job is a great source of photos.

  Posted on Sunday June 24th, 2007 at 12:53 in plants, wildlife, reptiles, bones, turtle people

  All this week's photos were taken while actually working. I'm as shocked as you are. I saw a bunch of tortoises last week, mostly along the main paved road on South Post. Apparently the roadbank is ideal tortoise habitat. Except, y'know, for the veh...

• Wildlife Photography Gone Wrong

  Posted on Sunday May 27th, 2007 at 16:46 in wildlife, bugs, birds, outside, mammals

  Here are some recent shots that turned out badly. Of course, the other thing they have in common is that these creatures are hard to find. I stumbled onto all of them accidentally, and I'm unlikely to find them again to take better pictures. So here...

• My job is cooler than yours.

  Posted on Saturday April 14th, 2007 at 16:34 in wildlife, post, outside, fire!

  Yesterday, the turtle survey was put temporarily on hold in order to fight a wildfire. I didn't know when I applied that the Gopher Tortoise Survey Intern job description also included “assistant firefighter” but if I had I would have bee...