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
Science can be messy. Shirley often told me about how the plant names were changing with DNA studies and how frustrating it was. And she found it hard, since like most of us, depend on the morphology to decide what is what. But nevertheless, also very interesting, eh! I love to learn new stuff, even…
Guess what the heat is still here. LOL And still I sat outside this morning for a bit. Of course I sat in the shade along with Gracie, Briar (Claire’s furry buddy) and Jim. We were waiting on Claire to join us for a short walk. Thanks to this amazing Green-eyed Monster, I got to…
Yesterday, I left you with the green-eyed yucca friend. Today, I will share some of the other prairie friends. A diner discovered 100 million-year-old dinosaur footprints in a restaurant Is the Silence of the Great Plains to Blame for ‘Prairie Madness’? Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more…
This was the last quail survey morning! And we were lucky to hear one Bobwhite on a different unit than previous days today. So this means we heard four bobwhites in three different locations on the grasslands for this year’s survey effort. That is pretty darn nice! Migratory Monarch Butterflies Are Listed as an Endangered…
Whoa, wasn’t the morning wonderful with the cloud cover? We were not very lucky in the rain department with only .02″. However, Alvord got .55″! Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
This morning we did another quail survey. We have been using the Merlin app to record the species of birds we hear. This morning’s list includes Mourning Dove, Purple Martin American Crow, House Sparrow, Painted Bunting, Blue Grosbeak, Painted Bunting, Northern Cardinal, Blue Jay, Carolina Wren, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, White-eyed Vireo, titmouse, Eastern Phoebe, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher,…
In this hot weather you are probably changing into a fresh set of clothes often. But like other creatures, we are shedding more than our artificial coverings (ie clothes). Humans lose 200,000 skin cells every hour or around five million skin cells in a day. The process is called desquamation. So like other creatures, we…
On today’s walk, several critters brought joy to my day. And hopefully yours as well! I carefully got close to get a close up shot and movie. As you can see, the snake watched Gracie as she walked passed me and the snake. 🙂 Light pollution is disrupting the seasonal rhythms of plants and trees,…
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is also known scientifically as the frequency illusion. You buy a car and suddenly you see the same model everywhere. Or perhaps get a new plant from the nursery, and now everyone else seems to have them as well. So now we are seeing “what ever” everywhere right. Well, sometimes it happens with…