all of nature declares the glory of jesus our creator

"What a wildly wonderful world, God! You made it all, with Wisdom at Your side, You made the earth overflow with Your wonderful creations."  Psalm 104:24 

2020 Nature PHoto Journal INdex

Click on the photos below to read the nature blog entries and see the photographs...
Eastern Bluebird Picture
1/9/20 From the deepest wilderness
Carolina Wren Picture
1/26/20 Birds of the Bible for Kids
Chipping Sparrow at Bird Feeder Picture
2/1/20 February 2020 Wildlife and Birding
Canada Goose on blue pond in Georgia Picture
2/14/20 Spring is Approaching!
Cherry Blossom Picture
3/20/20 Spring Progresses Despite COVID-19

OKEFENOKEE SWAMP EXPEDITION - March 2020

Okefenokee Alligator Eye Picture
3/9/20 A Cautious Okefenokee Eye
Okefenokee Bull Alligator Picture
3/9/20 Day 1: Billy's Lake
American Alligator basking by a Cypress stump in the Okefenokee Swamp Picture
3/9/20 Springtime in the Okefenokee
Northern Cardinal Okefenokee Birding Picture
3/9/20 Birding Stephen C Foster Campground
Okefenokee Northern Cardinal Picture
3/9/20 By Assistance of the Red Bird
Okefenokee Alligator Eye Picture
3/9/20 Okefenokeology Video Series
Trembling Earth Nature Trail sign Picture
3/10/20 Trembling Earth Nature Trail plants
Okefenokee Canoe Trail Sign Picture
3/10/20 Thank an Okefenokee NWR Ranger!
Okefenokee Swamp American Alligator exoskeleton scales and scutes of armor Picture
3/10/20 Armored Above and Below
Golden Club Never Wet Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia Picture
3/10/20 Okefenokee Golden Club
American Alligator close up stretched out on a long; Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia Picture
3/10/20 Tolerant, Not Tame
American Alligator close up stretched out on a long; Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia Picture
3/10/20 Alligator Pike-Pole
Minnie Lake canoe trail sign in the Okefenokee Swamp Picture
3/10/20 Lake Minnie worth the Paddle
Picture
3/10/20 Okefenokee Friends
Four Juvenile Alligator Okefenokee Swamp Picture
3/10/20 Minnies Lake Juvenile Gator Pod
Focus Stacked Alligator Stack Picture
3/10/20 Focus Stacked Gator Stack
River Cooter turtle, Pseudemys concinna floridana, Okefenokee Swamp Georgia Picture
3/10/20 A Day up the Middle Fork
Large American Alligator missing a foot and wound on face basking in the Okefenokee Swamp Picture
3/10/20 An Old Friend
Okefenokee Alligator Picture
3/10/20 El Legarto
Large female American Alligator laying on boat ramp Picture
3/10/20 Sophie's Suitor
Southern Blue Flag Swamp Iris Picture
3/11/20 Southern Blue Flag Iris
Hurrah Bush shrub with pink bell shaped flowers, Okefenokee Swamp Georgia Picture
3/11/20 Fetterbush Thickets
Alligator Apex Predator Picture
3/11/20 Apex Predator
White-tailed Deer Okefenokee Swamp Picture
3/11/20 Deer Chase Prairie
Okefenokee alligator Picture
3/11/20 A Log with Eyes
Picture
3/11/20 Florida Red-bellied Cooter
Huge American Alligator on bank of Billy`s Lake in the Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia Picture
3/11/20 World Record Alligators
Coastal Plain River Cooter Picture
3/11/20 Coastal Plain River Cooters
Swallow-tailed Kite Picture
3/11/20 Okefenokee Swallow-tailed Kite
Picture
3/11/20 Extreme Alligator Video
American Alligator hiding in swamp behind Blackgum and Cypress Trees Picture
3/11/20 Sights in Bygone Days
Toad in the hand Picture
April 2020 Backyard Birding & Wildlife
Fledgeling Bluebird in Nest Box Picture
4/9/20 Backyard Bluebirds Fledge
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Picture
4/11/20 Hummingbirds Arrive
Mockingbird nest with eggs Picture
4/16/20 Mockingbird Nest and Eggs
Jack in the Pulpit Flower Picture
4/25/20 Greenspace Nature Walk

ANOTHER OKEFENOKEE VISIT - MAY 2020

Spotted Sandpiper Okefenokee Swamp Picture
5/2/20 Okefenokee Spotted Sandpiper
Burned Cypress Stump Swamp Picture
5/2/20 When the Swamp Burns
Cypress leaves and immature cones Picture
5/2/20 Hope Seen in a Young Cypress
Okefenokee Cypress Tree Picture
5/2/20 Trees So Lofty
Picture
5/2/20 Okefenokee Social Distancing
Mixons Hammock Maidencane grasses canoe kayak trail, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia Picture
5/2/20 Okefenokee Prairie Ecosystems
Oak Mistletoe growing in a tree in the Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia, USA Picture
5/2/20 Okefenokee Oak Mistletoe
Okefenokee Mixons Hammock Picture
5/2/20 These Floating Islands
Bur Marigold Wildflower Okefenokee Swamp Picture
5/2/20 Okefenokee Gold Mine
Okefenokee Blackgum Coppice Growth Picture
5/2/20 Coppice Growth
Yellow Water Lily floating in blackwater swamp, Okefenokee Georgia Picture
5/2/20 Floating Fields of Nymphea
Brown Watersnake Picture
5/2/20 The Narrows
Virginia Chainfern, Woodwardia virginica, growing from a Cypress buttress in blackwater swamp Picture
5/2/20 Okefenokee Beauty and Charm
Netted Chain Fern Picture
5/2/20 Okefenokee Plant Collection
Sunning alligator reflection in blackwater swamp Picture
5/2/20 A Very Large and Terrible Creature
Woodpecker Holes in dead tree Picture
5/2/20 Woodpecker Excavations
Anhinga bird perched atop a large Pond Cypress tree with Spanish Moss Picture
5/2/20 Like an Umbrella
Red Okefenokee Lichen Picture
5/2/20 Canoe Trail Blazes?
Upland Pine Trail sign Picture
5/3/20 Morning Hike
Bird feather laying in dew covered grass on the Okefenokee Upland Pine Trail Picture
5/3/20 Virtual Okefenokee Exploration
Spider Web Picture
5/3/20 Delicate Designs
Bar Winged Skimmer Dragonfly Picture
5/3/20 Okefenokee Odonata
Longleaf Pine Bottle Brush Sapling Picture
5/3/20 Longleaf "bottle brush" Pine
Okefenokee Turkey Vulture Picture
5/3/20 Graceful Genius
Okefenokee Black Bear Track Picture
5/3/20 Okefenokee Black Bear Tracks
Wildlife Feeding Strictly Prohibited sign Picture
5/3/20 DO NOT FEED ALLIGATORS!!!
Broken Turtle Eggs Okefenokee Picture
5/3/20 Okefenokee Turtle Egg Predators
Prothonotary Warbler Picture
Okefenokee Birding May 2020
American White Water Lily Picture
5/3/20 Magnificent White Bonnet Lilies
Stephen C Foster State Park International Dark Sky Park refuge entrance sign Picture
5/3/20 Stephen C Foster Dark Sky Park
Okefenokee Swallow-tailed Kite Picture
5/4/20 Swallow-tailed Kite Sightings
Barred Owl Okefenokee Swamp Georgia Picture
5/4/20 Francis Harper's Florida Barred Owl
Pileated Woodpecker Silhouette Picture
5/4/20 Shadow of the Ivory-Bill
Scary large alligator in swamp swimming at camera Picture
5/4/20 This Incredible Boldness
Okefenokee Zale Moth Caterpillar Picture
5/4/20 Okefenokee Zale Moth Caterpillar
Spatterdock root stem called Gator Tater Picture
5/4/20 Gator Taters
Golden Club orontium fruit Picture
5/4/20 Golden Club Fruit
Okefenokee Tiger Moth Caterpillar Picture
5/4/20 Tiger Moth Caterpillar
Large American Alligator head close up portrait Picture
5/4/20 Power of an Alligator's Jaws
Sunrise silhouette of Green Anole lizard extending pink dewlap Picture
5/5/20 The Little Green Chameleon
Barred Owl in sunrise in Okefenokee Swamp Georgia Picture
5/5/20 Terrifying Screams of Owls
Okefenokee Green Anole Lizard Picture
5/5/20 Beautiful Leaf-green Lizard
Hooded Pitcher Plant Picture
5/5/20 Okefenokee Hooded Pitcher Plants
American White Water Lily Picture
5/3/20 Clean and Pristine Okefenokee
Timber Rattlesnake Picture
5/8/20 Timber Rattler, Walton County GA
Ratsnake profile scales Picture
5/14/20 Feisty Young Ratsnake
Black and White Warbler Georgia Birding Picture
May 2020 Backyard Birding & Wildlife
Male House Finch birding Picture
June 2020 Georgia Backyard Birding
Blue Grosbeak Georgia Birding Picture
6/8/20 Seeing Blue
Giant Stag Beetle Picture
6/9/20 "I'm not a bug guy"
Least Tern Picture
6/11/20 Least Tern Walton County GA
Nesting Painted Turtle Picture
6/12/20 Nesting Painted Turtle
Red-headed Woodpecker Picture
6/13/20 Greensboro Birding
Yellow Lance- leaved Coreopsis sunflower Picture
6/17/20 Wildflower Garden Walk
Giant Eastern Hercules Beetle with large horns on a leaf in Georgia Picture
6/30/20 Hercules Beetle Battles
Ratsnake in Kitchen Sink Picture
6/30/20 Ratsnake in the Kitchen Sink
Picture
July iNaturalist Observations
Six Foot Ratsnake Measured Picture
7/18/20 Six Foot Ratsnake
Picture
8/2/20 One must die so another may live
Silver Spotted Skipper Butterfly Picture
8/26/20 Humid Georgia Nature Walk
Wood Borer Beetle Picture
8/26/20 Makes Your Skin Crawl!
Eastern Ratsnake Picture
9/1/20 iNaturalist BackyardBio Project
Picture
9/2/20 iNaturalist Backyard Bio Project
Joro Spider in Web Picture
9/15/20 Joro Spider Invasion
Fall Persimmon Fruit Picture
9/12/20 iNaturalist Backyard Bio Project
Deer Skull Picture
9/15/20 iNaturalist Backyard Bio Project
Viceroy Butterfly Picture
9/18/20 iNaturalist Backyard Bio Project
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly Picture
9/22/20 iNaturalist Backyard Bio Project
Evening Bat Fangs Macro Close Up Picture
9/23/20 Scary Macro Bat Fangs
White juvenile Little Blue Heron Georgia birding Picture
9/29/20 Walton Little Blue Heron in the Rain
Picture
9/30/20 Eastern Ratsnake Emergency!
Scarlet Tanager Picture
10/5/20 Walton Scarlet Tanager
Eurasian Collared Dove Picture
10/6/20 Random Walton Birding
Cape May Warbler Picture
10/12/20 Waiting on the Warblers
Greenfield Lake Park Alligator Picture
10/15/20 Greenfield Lake Park NC

October Okefenokee Visit

Okefenokee Alligator Picture
10/22/20 Okefenokee Day 1 Billy's Lake
Okefenokee Alligator Picture
10/22/20 Not a Pleasure Excursion
Picture
10/22/20 Passage through "The Narrows"
Logging Railroad Pylons Okefenokee Swamp Picture
10/22/20 Rainbow over Mixons Hammock
Okefenokee High Walk Alligator Picture
10/22/20 Suwannee Sill Recreation Area
Tree Frog Picture
10/22/20 Okefenokee After Dark
Bald Cypress tree buttress with Spanish Moss in blackwater swamp with lily pads. Nature photography from the Okefenokee Swamp Picture
10/23/20 Birthplace of the Suwannee
Picture
10/23/20 Okefenokee Reflections
Picture
10/24/20 Islands of Trembling Earth
Okefenokee Black Bear Picture
10/23/20 Stephen C Foster Wildlife
Alligator Epidermal Scutes Picture
10/23/20 The Boney Hide of an Alligator
Okefenokee Eastern Phoebe Picture
10/23/20 Up the Red Canoe Trail
American Alligator anatomy profile showing scales and scutes on the hide Picture
10/23/20 Anatomy of an Alligator's Armor
Cypress knees covered in green moss in a gloomy swamp Picture
10/23/20 Weird Hobgoblin World
Moss covered cypress knees Picture
10/23/20 Cypress Knees
Cypress knees covered in green moss in a gloomy cypress swamp Picture
10/23/20 Ahead was a Dark Dense Swamp
Transverse rows of epidermal scutes on the back of an American Alligator Picture
10/23/20 Alligator Osteoderms
Alligator Tail Picture
10/23/20 Alligator Tail
American Black Bear Picture
10/23/20 Exceptionally Good Bearhounds
Alligator Picture
10/23/20 Impassible Dense Jungle
Peat Island Chesser Prairie Picture
10/24/20 Peat Islands - Trembling Earth
White Water Lily Picture
10/24/20 Okefenokee Prairie Plants
Chesser Prairie landscape in the Okefenokee Swamp Picture
10/24/20 Little Houses on the Praries
Okefenokee Tater Rake Run Canoe Trail sign Picture
10/24/20 Tater Rake Run
Okefenokee Swamp Prairie Habitat landscape panorama Picture
10/24/20 Rich Hammock Land
Okefenokee Barred Owl Picture
10/24/20 Whang-hoo of an Old Owl
Exposed peat blowup in swamp wetland habitat Picture
10/24/20 Okefenokee Bottomless Muck
Okefenokee Hooded Pitcher Plant Picture
10/24/20 Chesser Prairie Pitcher Plants
Okefenokee Swamp Prairie Habitat landscape panorama Picture
10/24/20 Vigorous Prairie Sawgrass
Barred Owl Picture
10/24/20 Uncanny Notes of the Barred Owl
Okefenokee Chesser Prairie Picture
10/24/20 Chesser Prairie
Okefenokee Swamp Canoe Trail Sign Picture
10/24/20 Okefenokee Options
Okefenokee Swamp Prairie Picture
10/24/2020 Not Without its Attractive Side
Tour Boat in Okefenokee Suwannee Canal Picture
10/24/20 Suwannee Canal Recreation Area
Yellow Rumped Warbler Picture
November 2020 Walton County GA Birding
Groundsel Tree Flowers Picture
11/5/20 Groundsel Tree
Large horse fly on wildflower Picture
11/5/20 Ten Quintillion Insects
Shining Sumac Picture
11/9/20 Autumn Shining Sumac
Dry Marsh Cattails in Winter Picture
11/26/20 Thanksgiving at Exner Preserve
Blue Headed Vireo Picture
12/12/20 Greene GA Birding Walk
Eastern Bluebird on Barbed Wire Fence Picture
12/21/20 Winter Eastern Bluebird
Chipping Sparrow Picture
12/22/20 December Walton Birding
Red-tailed Hawk eating squirrel Picture
12/22/20 Raptor Feast
Male Red Cardinal Picture
12/25/20 Christmas card-inal

OTHER Years PHoto Journal PAGES AND GALLERIES

Click the photos below to reach the index page for previous years nature photo journals.