Friends of the Carlton Reserve
1800 Mabry Carlton Parkway
Venice, FL 34292
Recently sighted in the Carlton Reserve
Photos by Richard Toledo
Sparring Bucks
Click on the picture for link to YouTube video
captured on a trail camera in the Carlton Reserve, December 2019.
Many thanks to Donna Day, Ernie Winn, Martin Siesta for camera maintenance, data collection, & data entry
As well as Debbie Blanco for her interest and direction of this project
funded by Friends of the Carlton Reserve
Who's watching whom in the woods?
This sequence of trail camera pictures was captured
by Debbie Blanco in the Carlton Reserve
Guess who turned up for the first time (confirmed) in the history of the T. Mabry Carlton, Jr. Memorial Reserve ? CLICK HERE
Young bobcats napping. Pretending to be tigers? (note trail name)
Photo by Debbie Blanco
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In the
Carlton Reserve Today
Photo by Art
Smith
Bald eagles develop a white head and tail when they reach breeding age at 4-5 years.
Encyclia Tampensis
(butterfly orchid)
in full bloom now in the Reserve
Photo by Art Smith
Spring!
Savannah False Pimpernel
Lindernia grandiflora
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Barred Owl
Photo by Dave Cottrill
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Grasspink, Calopogon multiflorus
a terrestrial orchid that appeared within a few days after a prescribed burn in the Carlton Reserve.
Spring comes to Who-ville
Great Horned Owl Chicks in the Carlton Reserve
Photo by Art Smith
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Wonder who's watching when you're on that solitary walk?
Stan Teague photographed these secret sharers.
A Catbird Reflects on
Wildlife Viewing Wildlife In the Carlton Reserve
photo of by Dave Cottrill
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Thanksgiving 2017
in the Carlton
Photo by Stan Teague
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
Photo by Jean-Louis Dumaine
Slideshow below by Dave Cottrill, Black Kat Graphics
Hummingbird clearwing, Hemaris thysbe,
photo by Darryl Saffer: earthcare@aol.com
Beauty after prescribed burn
Grass Pink: Calopogon pallidus
photo: Debbie Blanco
Bobcat Photos by Ed Hess 3/31/15
Freshly hatched baby alligators on South Power Line
Photo by Sherm
Green Anole: shedding skin or latest haute couture?
Photo by Jean-Louis Dumaine
"Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest coyote of them all?"
Caught on trail camera in December 2012.
Shall we call him Spot?
This leucistic (partial albino) buck has been caught in our trail cameras several times over the past 6 years, each time with a more impressive set of antlers, visible in past photos.
Baby Black Racer
(non-venomous, beneficial, indigenous Florida snake)
Photo by Michael Robbins
President:
Treasurer:
Website & Info:
Park Naturalist
Meghan Harris Meyer
Link to searchable U.S. map resources with parks, trails, campgrounds, historical sites, marinas, etc.
Sarasota County
Field Guide
to Conservation Lands
(download 64pp. PDF)
