Story and photo by M. Kathy Raines, Texas Master Naturalist The sloping forehead of this multi-dimensional fish ends in a tiny, puckered “o” of
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The Loggerhead Shrike AKA “Butcherbird” The masked white songbird perched on a twig, watching and waiting. Then, hawk-like, this loggerhead shrike swooped down upon a
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Rounding a bend at Sabal Palms Wildlife Sanctuary about noon, I startled to see a sizeable spotted cat with a large cub walking the trail
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Lace-trimmed waters crash, swirling among jumbled blocks of granite, exploding in shimmering mist. Carpets of bright green algae glimmer in sunlight. Terns and pelicans criss-cross
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Glancing from my book, I delighted to glimpse the ballooning speckled pink dewlap, or throat fan, of a green anole as it did push-ups against
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Fall migration is in full swing, and the charming little hooded warbler is resting and filling up on Valley insects as it journeys from the