Dateline – Spring, Summer, Fall 2019 – Denton County EDITOR’s NOTE: This is a followup to an earlier article… This Place in the Woods – […]
The River Otter Latrine
Dateline – Late Spring 2020 – Carrollton, Texas There’s something very satisfying about encountering a wildlife phenomenon in person for the first time. This River […]
The Backwoods Slough
Dateline – Winter 2020 – Denton, County Camera trapping in North Texas is always an enjoyable pursuit—especially when you have an interest in learning more […]
What about the Red Wolf?
A little over a year ago, folks attuned to such things might have caught wind of a news story involving Red Wolves, Coyotes, and Galveston […]
Coyote Run
Dateline – January, 4, 2020 – Denton County, Texas A report of a rare bird sighting took me to a new residential subdivision on the […]
Up from the River
Dateline – Summer 2019 – Dallas County I stumbled across this hard-packed and well-traveled small game trail on the banks of the Trinity River deep […]
This Place in the Woods – Deep Winter and Early Spring
Have you ever wondered what goes on in that little patch of bottomland woods you pass by everyday on your drive to work? You know […]
Why it’s Challenging to Treat Coyotes with Mange
Anyone who has spent time observing Coyotes in North Texas knows these animals are particularly susceptible to a terrible disease known as sarcoptic mange. This […]
They Got ’em in the Grasslands!
There’s a big mammalian predator said to roam the North Texas countryside. But this elusive killer is a ghost. Only the most fleeting of glimpses […]
North Texas Coyotes
Coyotes were the stars of my last article: Going Dry. In that story we followed the last days of a small and isolated urban pond […]
Going Dry
I had my eye on this little pond since early in the summer. I first noticed this intriguing spot while perusing Google Maps looking for […]
Mountain Creek? Well, Maybe.
Dateline – June 15, 2019 Earlier this summer I decided to make a trip out to Irving to visit a nature park that I’ve never […]