On a recent trip to southern Florida my brother-in-law was showing a trick you can do with the iPhone's panorama mode.

Jim, your bird is a Gila Woodpecker. They usually eluded me by flying away, exactly when I tried to take a photo. Neat birds, though.

I am in the room and can hear you all, y'know? I did not kill the snake. I was taking a walk and came across it, quite dead in the road. I didn't know what kind of snake it was so I took a pic hoping to identify it. I did. It was an Eastern Milk Snake. It was quite lovely with almost iridescent metallic copper tones in it's pattern. I'm glad some are willing to rescue wounded animals, but I assure you, this poor snake was quite beyond rescue by the time I found him. Most likely it won't be there by tomorrow a.m. as some scavenger will enjoy recycling it. So it will exist only in its current state for a short time, and captured on camera. I was sorry to see it killed, glad it died so quickly as opposed to in terror as most animals die, and glad that I was able to see it as it's probably the only way I'd ever get the chance. In all my years of walking, it's rare for me to come across any snake. I'm sorry some of you find this image of death upsetting. Sometimes images, like life, can be upsetting. (Yesterday I posted a picture of a weed with a dead blossom which didn't seem to provoke the same reaction.) Death happens. IAC, the image was not to celebrate the death, but the beauty of what once was and the chance I had to see it.

I posted it in the "name that plant forum" about 1 minute ago..."Hounds tongue" Cynoglossum officinale I found this....lol: The smell of the plant resembles dogs' urine so travellers would put some in their shoes to ward off dogs as they walked along. (I'm guessing it's deer proof...eh!)