TigerHead's photos

Male and Female Geese couple, reveling unmolested in their natural environment. Nature preserve, May, 2016 (Please view in Lightbox or larger sizes for best effect)

Tillandsia Ionantha - Botanical Gardens - Tropical Mexico - July, 2015 (Please view in Light Box or in larger sizes for best effect.) Normally green, it turns bright red when it blooms in order to attract hummingbirds to pollinate it.

Local artisan - Fort Lauderdale Florida - December, 2014 (Please view in Lightbox or larger sizes for best effect)

Local artisan - Fort Lauderdale Florida - December, 2014 (Please view in Lightbox or larger sizes for best effect)

Twilight reveals its final graces on sun-dripped palms. Hollywood, Florida - December 2014 (Please view in Light Box for best effect.)

Wet surfer, Pacific Coast Mexico, July, 2015 (Please view in Lightbox for best effect.)

Newly emerged - the first locust I'd seen that season, lighting and planting its open mouth on my shoe. Nature preserve, July, 2015 (Please view in Lightbox or larger sizes for best effect.)

Trans-Canada Highway at dusk. Solo road trip - September 2015 (Please view in Lightbox for best effect.)

Wet surfer, Pacific Coast Mexico, July, 2015 (Please view in Lightbox for best effect.)

Date palms with Starlings, decorated with Christmas lights. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, December, 2014 (Please view in Lightbox or larger sizes for best effect.)

Hemaris Thysbie - Clear-winged Hummingbird Moth - one of my favorite insects of all time - dining on Wild Bergamot. Nature preserve, July, 2015. (Please view in Lightbox or larger sizes for best effect.)

Female Florida Panther recovering from injuries - Feeling frisky in cooler weather. Flamingo Gardens, Davie, Florida, December, 2014 (Please view in Light Room for best effect)

Adult Florida heron recovers from his injuries under the loving supervision of dedicated environmental naturalists and veterinarians. Flamingo Gardens Animal Refuge and Botanical Research Center - Davie, Florida, December, 2014 (Please view in LightBox or in larger sizes for best effect)

Monarch on Goldenrod. Nature preserve, August 2015 (Please View in larger sizes for best effect)

Allium Universe Similar to Allium cristophii with its airy blooms, this appealingly shorter variety sends up large, 6–8″ metallic purple spheres on sturdy stems. The genus Allium (the Latin means “garlic”) offers colorful, distinctive, and long-lasting forms that are standouts in the early summer garden. Alliums are sun-lovers and prefer well-drained, even sandy, soil. Deer, mice, chipmunks, and related predators generally avoid this group, so you can plant with impunity. Tuck them among clumps of summer-flowering perennials where the Alliums’ withering foliage will be hidden by the expanding perennials. Late afternoon sun, illuminating from behind. Public Park - May, 2015 (Please view in LightBox or in larger sizes for best effect)

"...Oh, How I Sighed, When They Asked If I Knew His Name..." - Lady Stardust, David Bowie

A wasp-mimicking beetle. At over an inch long, this striking creature is the Locust Borer, Megacyllene robiniae. It’s one of the longhorn beetles; its larva bores into black locusts, while adults like this one eat goldenrod pollen. The conspicuous, brightly colored adults appear when goldenrod is in bloom. Adults are most abundant during September, when they are commonly found feeding on pollen of goldenrod blossoms. Nature preserve, September, 2012 (Please view in Light Box or in larger sizes for best effect.)

Newly emerged from metamorphosis, this beauty dries it wings in the faint sunlight. Nature preserve, May, 2015 Throughout its range, from sea level to moderate elevations, the Eastern Comma (Polygonia comma) is associated with rich deciduous woodlands. It occupies forest clearings, sunny spots along woodland roads, and open areas in the vicinity of its food plants, not uncommonly in close proximity to buildings. This butterfly seldom visits flowers, but rather feeds on sap, rotting fruit, salts and minerals from puddling, and dung.