The below Jacksonville area photos were added to their respective sections of the website in August 2023. I assembled them here so you didn't have to hunt for photos scattered across multiple pages.

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A view of the white undersides of a swallowtail kite, but this one appears to have part of its tail missing.
[This bird is flying away from the camera and the right side of the vee in the tail is only half as long as the left side. The body, head, and innermost part of its flight feathers are white. The rest of the feathers are black.]

This kite looks like it is ready to dive-bomb something.
[This bird is flying from upper left to lower right and appears to be watching or following something below it. Both sides of its forked tail are long.]

Mimosa tree new leaves (June 26, 2023)
[Coming out from between two fully developed and fully open leaf branches are two stems with tubular like structures which are the new folded leaves. It's as if they sprouted atop the existing branches.]

A very close view of white crape myrtle blooms (July 28, 2023)
[The many thin stamen with the round orange-yellow tips poke from the center of the curled white petals.]

There are three different crape myrtle trees in this image. In the middle is a tree with white blooms. Beyond it is a tree lilac-pink blooms. A tree with red blooms is in the foreground. (July 14, 2023)
[The three trees overhang a wooden board fence which is the properly line for a neighborhood yard.]

Four o'clock flower (August 25, 2023)
[This red-purple flower has five wide bifold petals with extremely long stamen of the same color which curl back into the bloom. The stamen have reddish-orange tips.]

These may be small melons. (August 20, 2023)
[A plant with wide flat leaves and many smooth yellow spherical fruits each about the size of a tennis ball. There are 15-20 fruits. ]

Two views of a black velvet leatherleaf slug which has four tentacles
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a top down view looking at its four tentacles which appear to have an eye at the end of each of them. The tentacles and the upper part of the body are black while the front chest area is more brown. The view on the right is looking at its up-raised head and tentacles from the back as it has most of its body flat on the sidewalk.]

The top and underside of what remains of a Florida leatherleaf slug
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is the cream-colored underside of the thick upper layer and the main body of the slug. On the right is the backside of the slug with its brown coloring and two thick irregular black stripes from top to bottom.]

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All photos © S. M. Garver