Happy New Year! Let’s start 2022 with something completely different from the images I’ve been posting for the last couple of months. I spent...
Details of a Flame Skimmer (Libellula saturata) dragonfly’s wings seen at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin on June 19th, 2021. This...
Getting a bit closer today, here’s another Flame Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata) I saw at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center last Saturday....
We took our first 2021 trip out to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center on Saturday and I took my macro gear along in case there were any interesting...
We spotted this juvenile alligator along with several of its siblings and their mother during an airboat tour of a section of swamp just west of New Orleans,...
This will be the last of the Texas winter storm photos for now. The countryside around here is covered in Mountain Juniper trees like this one. They are known...
A Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) sits in a snow- and ice-covered mountain juniper tree during the week long winter storm that hit Texas in February...
A group of Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum) puffed up to retain warmth, perch in the top of a tree during the Texas snowstorm of February 2021.
This week’s posting schedule was rather disrupted by the historic winter storm that hit Texas last weekend. Things started going south for us on Sunday...
Apparently American Robins (Turdus migratorius) aren’t affected by cedar pollen the way practically every human in Central Texas is. Here’s...
Staying with the theme of small birds seen last weekend, here’s one of many Pine Siskins (Spinus pinus) I spied from the bird blind at Charro Ranch...
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been inundated by tens of thousands of American Robins (Turdus migratorius) feasting on the plentiful berries...
After a week or so of rodeo images, let’s move back to a few more-recent images for the next few days. We had an unusual snow storm in Austin a couple...
Closing out this collection of birds seen last weekend, a Red-Shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) surveys the area around Lake Negley/Soil Conservation Site...
Several cypress trees rise out of the waters at Kyle’s Soil Conservation Site 1 Reservoir and these have been taken over as roosts for a sizeable...
A large flock of Red-Winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) were perching in the reed beds at Lake Neglwy (Soil Conservation Site 1 Reservoir) in Kyle...
An Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) seen at Lake Negley/Soil Conservation Site 1 Reservoir in Kyle, Texas on January 1st, 2021. This was one of the many...
I often fall into the trap of not photographing the common birds found in this area, forgetting that what’s common here is likely to be interesting...
For our New Year’s Day walk, Drew and I visited the unattractively named Soil Conservation Site 1 Reservoir in Kyle this afternoon after reading...
This is the famous Andromeda Galaxy, M31, as seen from Pedernales Falls State Park on Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 and represents my first attempt at photographing...
