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
Spring is such a wonderful time. Everything is springing to life. And yeah, there is no stopping it. Indeed nothing was going to slow down the first one! Slime Sense The Mysterious Falcon Decline: Why America’s Smallest Raptor Is at Risk Most Bees Nest in The Ground. Offering Rocks And Gravel Is a Simple Way…
The time is right to get a closer look at the plants. Moreover not just for the plants but for the friends that dwell on them! Yep, time to look closer for our small friends! The murderous cat you live with is a murderous cat, a study shows Botanical Gardens are the Last Bastions for…
The last day at Caddo NG was grand fun as all the days were there. 🙂 Can’t wait to return in a few weeks! A Hurricane Swept These Tortoises Across Miles of Ocean to a New Home in Florida—and Now, They’re Thriving Prototaxites: Oldest giant organisms a lost kingdom of life? Stand Up for Science!…
Ok, black Friday is over. Take a breath. Now get out there and renew your spirit! Tuesday’s outing continues… Fowl Play: How Wild Turkeys Are Outsmarting Hunters New Research Explains How Children Learned for 99% of Human History Interstellar dreams: Bat blood may enable human hibernation for long space travels World’s oldest lizard wins fossil…
Monday was a LBJ Grasslands day! A great day to enjoy the beauty of one of our national treasures! So now you will be watching for them here too! 2,300 Years of Yellowstone’s Grazing Giants Uncovered in Lake Sediments After killing phragmites, native plants prove complicated to cultivate Tiny Turtles Dressed in Swimsuits Are Truly…
Ah the beautiful LBJ National Grasslands. Indeed I feel so lucky to live near this treasure! The drama unfolded on the False Gaura with an abundance of life! Black widow spider venom decoded at ‘near-atomic resolution’ by scientists Hidden in Midwestern Cornfields, Tiny Edens Bloom Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see…
Another fine morning walk with my friends greeting me as stepped out the back door. A great morning walk with scat and a bumble bee! Ant Queens Practice ‘Hygienic Cannibalism’ Out of Tough Love Archaeological Mystery: Why Are So Many Women Buried in This 5600-Year-Old Necropolis? Wow! Another one! Big new sungrazer comet could get…
0.68″ was our rain total last night! Wonderful way to start the fall season. I know some of you got more, but no complaints here at the Pollinator Ranch. 🙂 Microplastics Seem to Be in Every Kind of Animal… Except One Birds Form Surprising Relationships With Other Avian Species During Migration, Study Suggests Tiny Trackers…
Now a look at the critters we found on our short visit to False Foxglove (Aureolaria grandiflora)! Others were there for example the ants. However these were the only ones I took pics. Don’t Just Walk In The Woods—Touch, Smell, and Taste Them, Too Thanks Claire! Spider Species Uses Male Fireflies as Ghastly Puppets to…
Do you have a nature bucket list? I do. It was working hard swaying its head back and forth. I wish I could tell you the species of the two grass skippers (Hesperiinae). However in the Wagner guide it says the only reliable way to know for sure is to raise them. I didn’t have a container…