1-1-2018 Happy New Year Walk at ORCA

Despite dismal weather and some sputters of rain that caused a few folks to turn back, a group of us made it to the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) Observation Tower on 1-1-2018. Gorgeous Gwen poses center in the midst…

Partly Parasitic

Piedmont blacksenna (Seymeria pectinata) now grows profusely along the xeric scrub trail at the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) near the entrance on Oslo Road just to the east of the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory. This trail was bush-hogged…

Loving that Lupine

Nancy Soucy (Class of 2010) is shown above photographing sky-blue lupine (Lupinus diffusus) at the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area on the group walk that followed her Florida Scrub-Jay banding talkĀ on 3/7/2015. Sky blue lupine is flowering gloriously near the…

Looking for lupine & eagles

The eagles decided not to nest on the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area this year, though they have been seen flying about, and the sky-blue lupines (Lupinus diffusus) on the trail have not been as dramatic as in some prior…