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Camp Crested Caracara
Dateline - July 8, 2021 - Cooke County A pair of Crested Caracara perched atop an old chimney in Cooke…
Lemmon Lake Lives… and Dies
Dateline - May 2020 - Dallas, County Looking through the dam breach to the Trinity River beyond. Click to Enlarge...…
Why it’s Challenging to Treat Coyotes with Mange
Healthy Coyotes... Winter coat (left) and summer coat (right).Click to enlarge Anyone who has spent time observing Coyotes in North…
Snow Geese Galore
Snow Geese Galore! Dateline - February 14, 2018 An admission—this wildlife sighting did not take place inside our usual 10…
Getting Around Town—Underground!
A few weeks ago, I noticed outside my office window, a lone Coyote. It was a daytime sighting made in…
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The Wise County Time Machine
Entering the Wise County Time Machine I made my first trip to Wise County way back in the early 1980's. …
Cauble Enterprises
The entrance to the Cauble Ranch during its heydays There's a ranch just north of Denton on Interstate 35. These…
Ghost Towns in North Texas?
Dateline - March 28, 2005 While collecting data for the maps I made for this site I stumbled across something…
The Cold War Comes Home
Dateline - June 12, 2005 Way back in the summer of 1979 my dad took an astronomy course at the…
Wildlife Rehab
The Unordinary Raccoon
Dateline - May 2, 2020 - Dallas, Texas Those of you who follow this website know that I am always…
Gray Foxes Get Some Help
We have two types of foxes here in North Texas—the Red Fox and the Gray Fox. Here is what Wikipedia…
Rehabbing the Bald Eagle
Wildlife rehabilitation is a challenging endeavor even under the best of circumstances. Wild animals—especially adult wild animals—are often stressed by…
Incubating Eggs
You may remember the unique and unfortunate situation we discovered in Carrollton back in the late spring. A pair of…
Why it’s Challenging to Treat Coyotes with Mange
Healthy Coyotes... Winter coat (left) and summer coat (right).Click to enlarge Anyone who has spent time observing Coyotes in North…
Rescue, Rehab, and Release
Dateline - March 1, 2009 This past spring my daughter and I were invited to participate in an event that…
Mountain Lions in DFW
Are There Mountain Lions In The Dallas/Fort Worth Area?
The Mountain Lion goes by many different names, cougar, puma, panther, painter, catamount. All of these are just different ways…
Mountain Lions in the Metroplex?
This spring has been the season of Mountain Lion sightings in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. I have received an unusual…
Rowlett Mountain Lion Confirmed!
Dateline - November 23, 2020 - Rowlett, Texas BIG NEWS! Click to Read This is a wildlife sighting confirmation fifteen…
A Lion’s Fate
Thirty-seven Days in the Metroplex By now many of you have heard the story of the recent Mountain Lion sightings…
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Bald Eagle Over Lewisville
Dateline - November 15, 2021 - Lewisville, Texas There's nothing especially unusual about a Bald…
The Risk of Rat Poison
Dateline - October 23, 2021 - Carrollton, Texas I found this little urban wildlife micro-drama…
Eggs of the Orb-Weaver
Dateline - October 2021 - Lewisville, Texas For several weeks, starting in mid August, big…
Guinea Paper Wasps
Dateline - September 2021 - Lewisville, Texas This will be a brief post to document…
Hawk Mischief
Dateline - September 4, 2021 - Carrollton, Texas On the way home from running errands…
Red, Green, Black, and Yellow
September 2021 These days I make a real effort to incorporate our daily dog walk…
Sharing Our Neighborhoods with Bobcats and Coyotes
Dateline - August 13, 2021 - Carrollton, Texas Only a couple of times a year…
Box Turtle Territory
Dateline - July 27, 2021 - Farmers Branch, Texas I like to tell the story…