Category: June2023

Today I really appreciated technology. Using Google and a high-tech bird feeder, I got a special birding experience. My son-in-law put up a new bird feeder that he gave my daughter for Mother’s Day. This amazing feeder has a built-in camera and sends a signal to your cell phone whenever a bird lands on the…

Where the water trough overflows, a dirt border is built to contain and hold precious drops of water as it spills out over the top and out onto the South Texas Sand Sheet.

On one particularly hot, humid spring day, back in 2022, before I began working on my chore list at the ranch and arboretum for that day, I took a few moments to glance around at the habitat to see if anything of note stood out that needed to be addressed first.

The eclipse this fall will be a partial solar eclipse, but it is not an ordinary partial eclipse. It is the rarest type of solar eclipse, an annular eclipse. At maximum, and as seen anywhere along the center line of the eclipse, you will see the entire Moon silhouetted against the Sun.

The indescribable beauty of the scarlet musk flower is best illustrated with a picture. This picture was snapped on a somewhat cloudy day in Starr County while I was out and about on a driving tour of the countryside.

Among the most common, and most maligned, of South Texas birds, the Great-tailed Grackle, or “devil-bird” as some have dubbed it, has on most occasions proven as great a personal annoyance for me as the English/House Sparrow and the European Starling. I have found it a noisy, messy bully: a bird menace.