Location: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens, Coral Gables, Miami-Dade County, FL
134 - Ruby-throated Hummingbird
135 - Palm Warbler, Western ssp.
136 - Gray Catbird
This months collection is inspired by the wonderful and well known Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables. These birds are fairly common and easily found at the garden this time of year, where they spend the winter. The idea of the collection was based on birds here in South Florida, that can be seen in residents personal gardens at their homes and in their neighborhoods. Common winter migrants.
Watercolor sketch of the birds and habitat for Collection 2.
134 - Ruby-throated Hummingbird
135 - Palm Warbler, Western ssp.
136 - Gray Catbird
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Archilochus colubris
flying male, carving 134, with Scarlet Sage - Salvia coccinea.
There was actually a female here, with a flock of American Goldfinches
eating the seeds of the sage.
flying male, carving 134, at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.
At this very moment there was a Ruby-throated Hummingbird here. I feel like this place is the most reliable spot to see a Ruby-throated Hummingbird in the winter in South Florida.
Palm Warbler, Western ssp. - Setophaga palmarum
winter plumage on a grassy base, carving 135
Beggarsticks - Bidens alba, blooming in the lawn.
Palm Warbler, Western ssp. - Setophaga palmarum
winter plumage on a grassy base, carving 135,
at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens, in the lowlands looking up toward the
Bailey Palm Glade.
Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensis
with Pine-Rockland base, soil, grasses, oak leaves, tiny snail shells,
and the endemic and endangered Small's Milkpea, Galactia smallii,
carving 136, at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in the lowlands amphitheater.
Pond Cypress Studio - Collection 2
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