Dateline – May 2021 – Edwards Plateau I love driving Texas rural highways. I love it. Texas is a beautiful state. The countryside. The rolling […]
Siren Song
Dateline – April 20, 2021 – Lewisville, Texas Spring showers have flooded a number of the lowland prairies in and around the DFW metroplex. Many […]
Is It Is or Is It Ain’t?
A Confirmed Cougar Sighting in East Texas? Some of you may have already seen this story from the Tyler Morning Telegraph. If you haven’t, you […]
West Texas Wildlife
Dateline – February 27, 2021 – West Texas In late February I had the opportunity to venture into West Texas, out Lubbock-way. While there, I […]
Arctic Blast
Dateline – February 2021 – Carrollton, Texas It was the late 1980’s the last time we had a cold spell like this one. Temperatures in […]
A Mid-Winter Discovery
Dateline – January 21, 2021 – Denton County, Texas On a cool but sunny January morning, while out on a hike for other things, I […]
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 in and around the DFW […]
An Urban Otter’s Unfortunate End
I’ve been studying urban wildlife here in the metroplex for just over fifteen years now. Over that time I have had many encounters that I […]
Barn Owl in a Bind
Dateline – December 26, 2020 – Carrollton, Texas I was on a short hike this sunny winter afternoon when an unusual looking patch of white […]
Hal’s Skunk
A coworker of mine recently noticed an unusual hole dug under the foundation of his home. Obviously an animal burrow, Hal couldn’t help but wonder […]
Lemmon Lake Lives… and Dies
Dateline – May 2020 – Dallas, County Two years ago I ventured out to the Joppa Preserve in the Great Trinity Forest to take stock […]
Rowlett Mountain Lion Confirmed!
Dateline – November 23, 2020 – Rowlett, Texas This is a wildlife sighting confirmation fifteen years in the making. I’ve been investigating Mountain Lion reports […]