This juvenile Little Blue Heron was photographed on Lemmon Lake in Dallas, Texas. This immature is in the process of molting away the white feathers […]
Great Blue Heron – Clear Water Fishing
This Great Blue Heron was observed fishing the clear waters of Spring Creek in Richardson, Texas. Observations Details County – Collin City – Richardson Date […]
Cattle Egret – Lakeside
These Cattle Egrets were photographed while they foraged and congregated along the edges of a lake in the Great Trinity Forest. They were hunting insects […]
Funnel Weaver – Trap!
These Funnel Weaver spiders (probably Agelenopsis naevia) were photographed in The Colony, Texas. Their numerous web funnels practically covered the ground in some places. Funnel […]
Green Heron – On Patrol
This Green Heron was photographed in the Arbor Hills Nature Preserve. He was observed hunting along the edge of the preserve’s only pond. Observation Details […]
Yellow-crowned Night Heron – Juvenile
This juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron was observed at Lemmon Lake in the Joppa Preserve area of the Great Trinity Forest. This is a young, newly […]
Yellow-crowned Night Heron – The Hunters
I observed these Yellow-crowned Night Herons by the ponds that line the White Rock Creek Bike Trail in the Lake Highlands area of Dallas, Texas. […]
Paper Wasp – Snatched
A Paper Wasp with a caterpillar. The caterpillar will used as food for developing wasp larvae back at the nest. Observations Details County – Dallas […]
Great Blue Heron – The Raider
This observation comes to us from George Angadicheril in Arlington, Texas. George has a small Koi pond in his backyard, and recently he noticed some […]
Robber Fly – With Prey
Bumblebee Mimic Robber Fly (possibly Laphria macquarti) with captured prey insect. Observation Details County – Dallas City – Dallas Date – May 4, 2012 Time […]
Red-tailed Hawk – The Hunter
I observed this juvenile Red-tailed Hawk while video a large communal roost made up of mostly European Starlings and Great-tailed Grackles. The hawk had somehow […]
Northern Harrier – Winging It
I observed this Northern Harrier as he came to land on a wooden fence post near the pond I was scouting. The first year juvenile […]