There are those who don't even realize that hummingbirds live in or travel through Florida. ...more

January 26, 2009

We do know that 90 friendly Indians showed up unexpectedly to join the feast. ...more

November 25, 2008

Imagine your garden without birds and butterflies. What a quiet, still and lifeless place it would seem! If you, like most gardeners, cherish the sights and sounds that birds bring to your landscape, there are simple ways to make your landscape irresistible to flying wildlife. ...more

October 12, 2008

Perhaps you enjoyed "Snakes on a Plane" as an entertaining movie. But it's a whole lot less fun when it's snakes in your home's foundation, as this reader discovered. ...more

August 24, 2008

Perhaps you enjoyed "Snakes on a Plane" as an entertaining movie. But it's a whole lot less fun when it's snakes in your home's foundation, as this reader discovered. ...more

August 24, 2008

Green Not So Green I have a dilemma that I need the liberal global warming alarmists to help me with. If we go to "electric" cars, I foresee a conflict of interest. Do I demonstrate my "greenness" by having an electric-powered rollerskate, thereby increasing the demand of electricty, thereby increasing the amount of coal or nuclear power usage while thumbing my nose at the oil companies? ...more

July 18, 2008

The last quarter moon occurs Thursday at 12:10 p.m. and causes an excellent early-morning feeding migration which starts at 5:30 a.m. and ends approximately four hours later from 9:30 to 10 a.m. ...more

June 24, 2008

Florida's blessed with lots of flowering plants that attract butterflies either hungry for nectar or in search of a food source for their larvae. ...more

June 18, 2008

Friday's story on pompano prompted several reader requests for more information on where and how to catch this popular species, so here's the scoop. ...more

February 24, 2008

Prescribed burns such as the one that on Tuesday sent a plume of smoke heading skyward from Werner-Boyce Salt Springs State Park help maintain the park's ecological balance, the park's manager says. ...more

January 11, 2008