Summer 2022 The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens is a local treasure. The park is home to 19 different gardens, each showcasing a varied collection […]
Dog Walk Wildlife – Spring 2021 Edition
I walk my two dogs most every day. We usually get an early start—just a little before or little after dawn—and kill about an hour […]
Rainy Days
We’ve had a lot of rain this May. Eleven days straight at last count, plus several miscellaneous days earlier in the month, and maybe more […]
Camera Trapping the Swamp
I recently purchased a couple of Bushnell’s Aggressor wireless trail cameras. These cool little trail cameras come with a built in cell phone, which allows […]
The Wildlife of Garden Inn Pond
Where can you find interesting wildlife in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex? Well, as it turns out, just about anywhere you happen to look. All you […]
North to Denton – The Greenbelt Corridor Park
October 26, 2014 – Denton, Texas This is part one of a two part series. After many years of looking with great interest at aerial […]
Blanchard’s Cricket Frog – Hidden
This picture comes to us from David Mimlitch. He and his boys found this little frog Plano’s Arbor Hills Nature Preserve. They were struck by […]
Blanchard’s Cricket Frog – Winter Wonder
In the dead of winter there shouldn’t be frogs out and about, right? Even on an unseasonably warm day? Right? Wrong. This Blanchard’s Cricket Frog […]
Blanchard’s Cricket Frog – Plentiful
While walking the edges of Lemmon Lake in the late spring, dozens of these cricket frogs would leap ahead of me with each step I […]