Welcome to my nature blog! I love sharing my photos of North Texas! I will keep looking out and hope you do too.
Comments welcome. Thank you, Mary
This morning started the second site visiting for the LBJ Quail Survey. The goal is to visit each survey point three times a season. So how did the survey go? The post title says it all. 🙂 At three of the six points we heard a total of five lovely Bobwhites calling. Music to our…
What do you grow in your garden? Do you grow veggies for you and your family? Or maybe you are growing a pollinator garden for the insect friends. Perhaps you do both. Great! Moreover each year I have been waiting for a Five-spotted Hawk Moth (Manduca quinquemaculatus) cat to show up. Someday I hope. Until…
I don’t go far because there is always something that will stop me. So fun to stop and watch. Like I did for this Obscure Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca obscura) chowing down. Common Farm Chemical Is Accelerating the Insect Apocalypse Neanderthals boiled bones in ‘fat factories’ to enrich their lean diet Oregon Backyard June 24-29, 2025…
The other day you may recall I was at the Windmill Lake. Well, after I finished looking for my sunglasses I went further. Capturing the crab spider takes more than a few shots. So I’m twisting the flower around when I get another cat too! Never miss a chance to explore the LBJ NG! Orcas…
Summer is a great time to take a close look at our neighbors, the insects! Indeed insects are certainly fascinating neighbors! New Study Overturns 50-Year Assumption About Fish Schools The Big Picture 2025 Your Food Packaging Is Shedding Microplastics Into Every Meal, Study Reveals Stand Up for Science! Our lives depend on it. Keep looking!…
I felt very lucky to have been a part of Randy’s life. Even if it was just a short time. Though in the over scheme of Randy’s adult life I witness 16% of his adult time. Which in human years would be about 10 years. If I calculated it right. FYI I let him go…
Yesterday I was back checking nest boxes. And what a nice day to do it with the over-casted sky! A great finish to the morning! Brown Bear Alaska LiveCam Rethinking Human Origins: Study Debunks Theory of Climate-Driven Evolution in Africa One statistical analysis must not rule them all Stand Up for Science! Our lives depend…
Happy Independence Day! Where the action happened over night! Then Randy climbed to the top. Notice that at this point that he still doesn’t have the Z on his wings. Randy is a Resh Cicada (Megatibicen resh). This species is not the loudest to sing in the summer for us in the US. But at…
Yep, it seemed yesterday was another First Wednesday. And it wasn’t half bad out with the cloud cover and additionally being on a shady trail. There are a lot of interesting things to enjoy. Indeed that always seems to be the case whenever you take a walk at the LBJNG! Orcas Use Kelp as a…
At the half way mark and still no sign of my sunglasses. Maybe my luck would change. So I had finished re-tracing my steps but no luck on the sunglasses. Perhaps they were hidden in some of the deep coastal grass on the spillway. Hopefully they found a new home. I was not too disappointed…