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
Good advice is to always try to be aware of your surroundings. Most critters will avoid you if they can of course. Indeed lucky for me I have mostly been lucky except for a bee or wasp sting a few times. So I was able to capture a movie of it with its loud buzz….
Warning: There is a photo of a dead mammal to follow. I had read that our opossums fluorescence with UV light. In fact, I have been waiting for just such an opportunity to shine my UV torch on one, alive or dead. So alive was preferable, but I don’t often see live ones at night,…
For the last month or so we put out our wildlife cameras. We have had deer, bobcats, armadillos, skunks, opossums, birds, squirrels, and moths. It has been great fun, but of course not all were worth showing. However today’s post is a few edited videos of some of the best shots. Keep looking! The more…
So I have been plotting on a way to see exactly who was leaving tracks in the sandy loam in our woods. Yes, I can tell in general most the time what is leaving the tracks. However, I want to see who exactly are leaving the little tracks. Pushy plants? Student discovery ‘adds new dimension…
We were up before the sun as per our usual. Naturalist Sam Langlois captured a series of photographs and videos of the daredevil drop in June. Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
We were now winding our way back down the hill. The robber fly is an aerodynamic acrobat that can catch its prey in midflight Lichens Are in an Evolutionary Race Against Climate Change Where Black and Indigenous History Come Together Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see,…
We made it back to the car, BUT I wanted to look for one more thing out on the barrens above the grotto. So off we went. Hidden Diversity: Undiscovered Species Are Hiding Right Under Our Noses Smithsonian Honors Female Scientists With 120 Bright Orange Statues Dinosaur Faces and Feet May Have Popped With Bright…
The sunshine is back! So naturally, I took some photos of the ice and snow in the sunshine. Lyme and other tick-borne diseases are on the rise. But why? Percy Julian the trailblazer Premieres WED FEB 9 at 9/8c on PBS: SECRETS IN THE SCAT Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see…
We had it all last night and today with about 3/8 inch of ice and one inch of snow here! At our house the temperature has started to drop again and was 17.7 degrees at 5:47pm. The high was 24.9 degrees at midnight. So most of the day it hovered around 20 to 22 degrees….