Yesterday Jeanne and I headed to the Thomsen Foundation. Jeanne was looking for mosses and I was looking for Cymopterus. As we hopped out the car at the bottom of the mesa, I heard the first of season Blue-gray Gnatcatcher and a White-eyed Vireo!
So Jeanne quickly found her first collection!
The smaller Pink Verbena (Glandularia pumila) was along the fence line.
Indeed it is quite the view! Also I believe at this point I heard a Pileated Woodpecker. Rush Creek is near the bottom.
White crustose lichens were splattered all over this limestone rock. Doesn’t it look like big humongous key hole?
A passage way down. However we did not attempt… it for now.
An interesting jellyskin lichen (Leptogium -tentatively) caught my eyes. At this time I decided against a collection. I know where they live. đ
Jeanne found this moss worthy of collection which was right next to the above lichen.
Sure was a pretty place to hunt. The bats article made me sad but that âuglyâ fish made me smile
Yep, yep and yep agreed. đ
Blobfish- blobology- shapeless puddles of goo – what a fun article!
I went birding with an Audubon group at Benbrook Lake on Friday and we heard a blue-gray gnatcatcher too. We also saw cattle egrets. Spring is here!
Now we wait for hummers and scissortails and cuckcoos…
I am surprised you didnât go in the hole!!
We had a mission. Another day âșïž