A Week in the Texas Hill Country

MLB and I spent last week at Horseshoe Bay, and it turned into quite a busy time. (Important Note: The following is the equivalent of showing blurry vacation slides from that trip with your parents to Knott’s Berry Farm to captive friends who reciprocate by never coming back to your house, even when tempted by… Continue reading A Week in the Texas Hill Country

Elk in West Texas? Yep…and we can prove it!

The 50-mile stretch of US Highway 385 between Fort Stockton and Marathon, Texas, has always been one of my favorite drives. If you encounter five other vehicles during the trip, it’s a heavy traffic day. It’s a perfect showcase for the desolate grandeur of the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas, winding through some of the… Continue reading Elk in West Texas? Yep…and we can prove it!

Fox Times Two

Our fox continued to visit our back yard around noon for a few days after we filed this report. He (or she – I have no way of knowing for sure) would usually be snoozing in the sunshine on the back porch when we got home for lunch, and then vanish shortly after noon. But,… Continue reading Fox Times Two

The Fox Returns

We were leaving the house to head to church this morning when my eye caught something odd through the door that leads from our bedroom to the back porch. It’s hard to make out from this phone photo, but it’s a gray fox napping on the mat outside the door. I opened the blinds a… Continue reading The Fox Returns

Flight Behaviors in Young Animals: More Questions Than Answers

I observed a couple of instances of unusual behavior on the part of some young animals this week, and they made me wonder about whether such behavior was learned or instinctive. My drive to work each day takes me for a mile down a street called Mockingbird, the length of which on one side is… Continue reading Flight Behaviors in Young Animals: More Questions Than Answers

Bunny Stop

Baby cottontails are perhaps the cutest wild animals in existence, especially when they try to hide in plain sight. This one inexplicably stopped just short of a bridge that would have completely hidden it. Perhaps it thought that we’d be confused by the rebar right behind it, thinking it was a snake. In any event,… Continue reading Bunny Stop