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Come look for spring migratories with us on our Winged Wednesday bird tour of this Wednesday and every Wednesday this month. This is a freestyle tour where we will select our trail and route depending on what you hope to find! 🐦 Bookings available on www.wonderboundadventures.com.
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🌼In Bloom🌼 Yellow Milkwort, spotted in
"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." - Franz Kafka
Still trying to spot a Florida Scrub Jay in person? Book a tour with us! We are available for private bookings. Schedule a hike with us today! Email [email protected] 🐦
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“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.” - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
🌸In Bloom🌸 Cross-Leaved Milkwort, spotted in
Earlier this month, in partnership with Manatee County Natural Resources and Stocking Savvy - Environmental Consulting, we led a Ringling College biodiversity class on a venture through Robinson Preserve. Students learned about the species they saw and discovered more for themselves via cataloguing on iNaturalist. 🌿🐦 We saw juvenile osprey, painted bunting, fiddler crabs, and much more!
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Note: We were given specific permission of which natural spaces we could enter and which spaces we could not enter. Students went off trail in the approved spaces to practice spotting and cataloguing species.
Our WonderWanderers hikes are designed for families with young children. Our naturalists will join you as your child explores Florida nature and learns about the flora and fauna surrounding them... and of course we will be sure to look for cool bugs. 🪲
“Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” - Albert Einstein 🌎Happy Earth Day🌍 We hope that you notice something that makes you wonder today.
📸: painted bunting by Seaworthy Design
Come for a scrub a hike and meet a gopher tortoise, a keystone species digging burrows that provide shelter for at least 360 other species. Join us at Lake Manatee State Park and Wingate Creek State Park this Wednesday, bookings available on wonderboundadventures.com 🐢
📸: gopher tortoise by Seaworthy Design
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” - W.B. Yeats
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Join us for a scrub hike next week and look for creatures! We'll be hiking through the scrub habitats of Lake Manatee State Park and Wingate Creek State Park on Wednesday. Bookings available on wonderboundadventures.com 🦎
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Join us this weekend to look for birds! We'll be at Myakka River State Park with morning and sunset hikes on Saturday and Sunday. 🐦 Bookings available on wonderboundadventures.com
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The atala butterfly... once thought to be extinct, is living proof of why it's important to incorporate native plants into your landscaping. Hosting on coontie, this butterfly came back from the brink due to the popularity of its host plant in landscaping in recent years. Learn more about our native plants on upcoming hikes with us! Bookings available on wonderboundadventures.com.
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Migratory bird species are headed to their summer homes... come look for some before they leave! Join us tomorrow in Myakka River State Park for a 5:45pm sunset hike and a 10am kid's hike. Bookings available on wonderboundadventures.com 🐦
📸: male indigo bunting by Seaworthy Design
Feeling the Monday blues? Let this grumpy blue-gray gnatcatcher cheer you up a bit! 🐦
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Catch us in Myakka this afternoon looking for birds & sunsets with ✨ Interested in joining us? Sign-ups are still open until this afternoon on www.wonderboundadventures.com
📸: Loggerhead Shrike (Butcher Bird)
‼Cool Bug Alert‼ Caribbean Meadow Katydid spotted in - Give it a listen here: https://orthsoc.org/sina/232a.htm
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Have you spotted a painted bunting yet this season? 🎨This a beautiful and very lucky birding spot, not every birder can say they've seen one! Join us this Sunday as we look for birds and practice our bird photography skills, register here: www.wonderboundadventures.com
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💙The Blue-Striped subspecies of the Common Garter Snake💙 Found on a trail in - These beauties can be found in many of the areas we hike in. Another reason to watch our step, tread slowly, & stop to notice the wonder around us. Eco-Tour bookings available: www.wonderboundadventures.com
🌸Glade Lobelia🌸 Found in the wet pineland in , glade lobelia is a relatively unnoticeable plant until it blooms. The flower stalk appears in summer with blooms appearing in late summer and throughout fall. Although we may be past season for this beautiful bloomer, we are sure to discover many more wildflowers in Wingate Creek State Park on January 17, register here: www.wonderboundadventures.com
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Camouflage is an incredible thing! Can you spot the two grasshoppers in this image?
📸: - male and female toothpick grasshopper (mating)
Join us on a learning venture through Perico Preserve this Wednesday at 10am. Walk with a naturalist through this transitional, reclaimed natural space. 🥾
The yellow-rumped warblers are in town! Have you seen them? These small song birds are a frequent sighting on our hikes right now! We have hikes scheduled this upcoming week on Tuesday through Sunday, check the schedule and register on www.wonderboundadventures.com
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‼️Cool Bug Alert‼️ This is a female green lynx spider. These spiders are found on shrub-like plants, waiting for insects to wander into their space. 🕷
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Looking to learn about birds and photography? Join our artist-led birding and photography hike on Sunday, January 14 at 2:30pm at Myakka River State Park with Emma Seaworthy. Register here: www.wonderboundadventures.com
🔎Spot the difference!🔍 Two species of rabbits occur in Florida! Photo 1: Marsh Rabbit (often found near water, strong swimmers) - Photo 2: Cottontail (prefers heavy brush, strips of forest, abandoned fields, and edges of cultivated fields) - How can we identify these two species when we see them on a hike? What makes them look different from each other?
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Leffis Key sunrise views 🌊 Join us and explore Leffis Key at sunrise this Friday at 7am, register here: www.wonderboundadventures.com
We find friends of all kinds on our wanders! Like this Southern Black Racer -- these nonvenomous snakes are Florida natives and can be found in many of our local ecosystems. Frogs, lizards, and small snakes make up most of their diet, however they also will eat insects and small mammals. These guys are some of the best pest control you can have in your backyard, so don't fear if you see one! Be happy that you have such a helpful neighbor. 🐍
Out here making friends and finding things to wonder about! ✨ Come hike with us: www.wonderboundadventures.com
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