DATLELINE – Summer 2024 There are a number of mysteries surrounding American Alligators living in and around Dallas/Fort Worth that have yet to be unraveled. […]
Dallas/Fort Worth Alligator Tracker
Are there Alligators in the Dallas/Forth Worth Metroplex? LAST UPDATED: January 28, 2025 The question about whether there are Alligators in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex […]
Coyotes and Armadillos
Dateline – Summer 2022 – North Denton County Earlier in the summer I began to explore in—what for me was—a new area of the urban […]
Bald Eagle Over Lewisville
Dateline – November 15, 2021 – Lewisville, Texas There’s nothing especially unusual about a Bald Eagle in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. It’s been well established—for […]
Box Turtle Territory
Dateline – July 27, 2021 – Farmers Branch, Texas I like to tell the story of Texas box turtles when ever I get a chance. […]
Bobcat Central
Dateline – Winter and Spring 2021 – Lewisville, Texas It quickly became apparent that this was a real Bobcat hotspot shortly after I setup my […]
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 […]
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 […]
Shared Observations
One of the primary missions of this web site is to document the unique and unusual as it relates to wildlife living here in the […]
Two Coyotes and a Dog
Dateline – February 12, 2017, Dallas, Texas I’ve already posted about this encounter on our Facebook group, but I wanted to include the story here […]
The Elm Fork of the Trinity River – Surging through Lewisville
We are still dealing with the side effects of last spring’s heavy rain and flooding. Until just recently the spillway at Lewisville Lake has been […]
What is the Great Trinity Forest?
The Great Trinity Forest—many have heard of it, but how many of us really know what it is? In the simplest terms, the Great Trinity […]