{"id":96092,"date":"2025-12-26T10:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T10:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/96092\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T10:28:10","slug":"panthers-to-possums-sw-florida-is-home-to-many-photographic-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/96092\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers to &#8216;possums, SW Florida is home to many photographic animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When Naples Daily News and Fort Myers News-Press photojournalist Andrew West is not documenting events, high school sports or assignments for news, he enjoys documenting nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Southwest Florida certainly does deliver in its preserves, estuaries, Gulf shore and throughout even the hi-rises and subdivisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">West monitors a remote camera trap system that he has set up at Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed where he captures all kinds of wildlife from Florida panthers to opossum. Beyond that, he is always on the lookout for the beauty that Southwest Florida has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Take a look back at some of his best nature images from 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A flock of roseate spoonbills come in for a landing at New Pass between Lovers Key and Bonita Springs beach on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"495\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d842c49f20c23e5375be39b19425bfe3.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A flock of roseate spoonbills come in for a landing at New Pass between Lovers Key and Bonita Springs beach on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A tri colored heron preens at J.N. &quot;Ding&quot; Darling National Wildlife Refuge\u2019s Bailey Tract on Sanibel on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1189\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7ec84cb62a560723c15497f821fb4fe9.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A tri colored heron preens at J.N. &#8220;Ding&#8221; Darling National Wildlife Refuge\u2019s Bailey Tract on Sanibel on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A collared male Florida panther passes through Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed in early May of 2025. Photographed with a remote camera trap system. The rare cats use CREW as a hunting grounds and wildlife corridor.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"537\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/445db899ee426b20cdb7330a497d6622.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A collared male Florida panther passes through Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed in early May of 2025. Photographed with a remote camera trap system. The rare cats use CREW as a hunting grounds and wildlife corridor.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A fish is tossed in the air by a hungry anhiinga on Sanibel on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"515\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/5549534a601ef82791c42085bdc3f8bb.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A fish is tossed in the air by a hungry anhiinga on Sanibel on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A wayward coyote made its way onto the ledge of the parking garage at the Luminary Hotel in downtown Fort Myers on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. Members of the Fort Myers Police Department, Fort Myers Fire Department and Florida Fish and Wildlife responded to the scene along with a crowd of curious onlookers. The coyote jumped back into the garage and made its way safely out of the garage and was seen heading towards Fort Myers.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"579\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9550382775a99b383c778b5ef85e17ba.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A wayward coyote made its way onto the ledge of the parking garage at the Luminary Hotel in downtown Fort Myers on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. Members of the Fort Myers Police Department, Fort Myers Fire Department and Florida Fish and Wildlife responded to the scene along with a crowd of curious onlookers. The coyote jumped back into the garage and made its way safely out of the garage and was seen heading towards Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A mother otter and her pups feed and frolick in the waters at Six Mile Cypress Slough in Fort Myers on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"393\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ba7cd368fabd213702dccb96c3da29f5.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A mother otter and her pups feed and frolick in the waters at Six Mile Cypress Slough in Fort Myers on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Please support Southwest Florida community journalism and stay informed about Southwest Florida news by subscribing to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.news-press.com\/offers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The News-Press;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The News-Press<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.naplesnews.com\/offers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Naples Daily News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Naples Daily News<\/a>; download the free\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cm.news-press.com\/subscriberguide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:News-Press;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">News-Press<\/a>\u00a0or Naples Daily News app, and sign up for daily briefing email newsletter, food &amp; dining and growth &amp; development newsletters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/profile.news-press.com\/newsletters\/manage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/profile.naplesnews.com\/newsletters\/manage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-press.com\/story\/news\/2025\/12\/26\/southwest-floridas-wildlife-photographed-in-2025-by-andrew-west\/87846120007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Southwest Florida&#039;s wildlife photographed in 2025 by Andrew West;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Southwest Florida&#8217;s wildlife photographed in 2025 by Andrew West<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Naples Daily News and Fort Myers News-Press photojournalist Andrew West is not documenting events, high school sports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51024,51026,28,30,29,16995,51025,51027,1521],"class_list":["post-96092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-andrew-west","tag-corkscrew-regional-ecosystem-watershed","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-panthers","tag-naples-daily-news","tag-photojournalist","tag-southwest-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}