Dateline – December 16, 2013 Earlier this year I took a little kayak trip down the Elm Fork of the Trinity River. Starting at the […]
Green Anole – Home
Various Green Anoles photographed around the yard of a home in Little Elm, Texas. Wikipedia has this to say about Green Anoles: The Carolina anole […]
White-tailed Deer – Near Lake Lewisville
I did a little trail camera work in Little Elm near Lake Lewisville this summer. Camera Trapping is what they call it these days. The […]
Raccoon – Raiders at Dusk
These are trail camera pictures of Raccoons raiding a peanut and apple cache in Little Elm, Texas. The Raccoons returned to the site two nights […]
Tachinid Fly – False Purple Thistles
This is a Tachinid Fly (Peleteria sp.) collecting pollen from False Purple Thistles along the banks of Doe Branch Creek. Observation Details County – Denton […]
Prairie Boopie – Ridiculous Name
This oddly named grasshopper—the Prairie Boopie—was found on a Lake Lewisville floodplain. With him were likely millions of other grasshoppers of multiple different species. Summer […]
Common Snapping Turtle – Snorkeling
I observed this ghostly apparition swimming my direction in the cloudy waters of Doe Branch Creek. As luck would have it, the wandering Common Snapping […]
Honey Bee – False Purple Thistle
These are Honey Bees collecting pollen from False Purple Thistles along the banks of Doe Branch Creek. Observation Details County – Denton City – Little […]
Common Carp – Coming Along
This Common Carp first caught my attention while he was far downstream in Doe Branch Creek. He had worked his way into the shallow water […]
Coyote – Pups!
On the morning of this observation I had traveled to Lake Lewisville in order to photograph the Louisiana Whooping Cranes that were there. When I […]
Colorado Potato Beetle – Scourge
This is a Colorado Potato Beetle feeding on a flowering Buffalo Bur in Little Elm near Lake Lewisville. The Colorado Potato Beetle’s two claims to […]
Turkey Vulture – Lake Lewisville Roost
This tree is a favorite roost for Turkey Vultures as is documented in this earlier post: Turkey Vulture – Roost. On this day I arrived […]