Counting alligators on the Tamiami trail, southern Florida. These medium weights were numbers 33 and 34, between just mile post 45 and 46. And that would only be the ones we saw; you do have to try to keep an eye on the tarmac.

Maple leaves and Spanish moss on a cool (2°C) morning.

Every body of water has a warning about not harassing the alligators.

Sunrise, just before an hunting osprey splashes into the water, tries twice but doesn’t get any breakfast.

Sandhill cranes are the iconic migratory bird of central Florida, they travel in their hundreds of thousand from Canada’s near Arctic and can be found grazing suburban gardens and roadside ponds hunting frogs and invertebrates