Category Archive: mammals

Castor Canadensis and Castor Fiber

Whenever I am researching for a nature presentation, I come across great resources that beg to be shared. This is from The History of Four-footed Beasts, Serpents, and Insects, 1658, which was mostly… Continue reading

Exotic Animals in Texas

This is the third part of my submission for the Nature Photo Challenge #28: Wild Animals. In my first post on this topic, I explained about our two family properties in very different… Continue reading

Native Animals of North America

In our travels, we have seen some iconic North American animals. You can see more animals from the Elk Refuge at my post here. It was fun to revisit old travels for this… Continue reading

Native Wild Animals of Texas

This week Denzil asks us to show wild animals for his Nature Photo Challenge #28. That is a huge topic and I think this will be a three-part series! I see lots of… Continue reading

Nature Photo Challenge #20: Black

Denzil started off his current photo challenge with a picture of a coot, so I will too!  🙂  We have had American Coots visit at our farm, but my favorite coot picture is… Continue reading

Wild Hogs

Feral hogs are the bane of our existence here in Texas, especially for those who live in nice new suburban areas.  They breed quickly and destroy plants, and they are a dangerous obstacle… Continue reading

Hill Country Animals

Here are some of the animals caught on camera in the dry creek bed of our family property in Central Texas.        

Birds on a Water Break

This past week we were at our place in the Texas Hill Country, and I had been working near a water trough for about an hour, when suddenly birds started flying in.  This… Continue reading

Unusual Pair

We caught these two on the wildlife camera this past September.  Unfortunately the light wasn’t good and there was hardly any contrast in the photos, so I used Photoshop Elements® to make them… Continue reading

Wildlife Cam 2017

My daughter and son-in-law put a wildlife camera in the creek bed at our property in Central Texas.  That place is about 300 miles to the west of us, in a region that… Continue reading