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Pocket Prairie: Helping Our Neighbors, Healing Our Minds

Posted on July 5, 2020January 23, 2022 by Shannon

Tying the proverbial bow on a 1-yr-old backyard prairie restoration project. Still going!

Posted in Birds, Conservation, Insects, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged Eastern Bluebird, Fawn, Pocket prairie, Restoration, Summer, Wildflowers15 Comments

Patriotism

Posted on May 12, 2020May 12, 2020 by Shannon

A bit of prose, for the times.

Posted in Animals, Birds, Conservation, Insects, NatureTagged American Crow, Calico pennant, Magnolia jumping spider, Mushrooms, Poem, Pugnacious leaf-cutter bee, Tawny Emperor13 Comments

Taking Time To Shoot The Birds

Posted on June 30, 2019December 27, 2021 by Shannon

A late-ish spring birding post on the Texas coastal prairies. With pictures.

Posted in Birds, Conservation, NatureTagged Birding, Black-throated Green Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Cliff Swallow, Common Nighthawk, Dickcissel, Migration, Sanderling, Spring, Summer Tanager, Swainson's Hawk, Whooping Crane9 Comments

Yard-birding: Break In The Chaos

Posted on February 2, 2019December 27, 2021 by Shannon

Pretty birds, wrecking my work as usual.

Posted in Birds, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged Birdbath, Blue-headed Vireo, Dark-eyed Junco, Northern Mockingbird, Pileated woodpecker, Summer Tanager, Winter, Yardbirds14 Comments

Forging Foraging Friendships

Posted on January 24, 2019December 27, 2021 by Shannon

Either Pericles thinks he's a rabbit, or the rabbits like birdseed. Maybe both.

Posted in Animals, Birds, RabbitsTagged Budgerigar, Friendship, Himalayan, Pets6 Comments

Sunshine And Water

Posted on January 13, 2019December 19, 2021 by Shannon

A short photo tribute to one of our brightest winter birds: Tweety.

Posted in Birds, NatureTagged Birdbath, Birding, Sunshine, Wilson's warbler, Winter, Yardbirds11 Comments

Local Birding: Resetting The Love

Posted on January 7, 2019December 27, 2021 by Shannon

Kicking off 2019 right .. with feathers!

Posted in Birds, NatureTagged American Goldfinch, Anhinga, Birding, Brazos Bend State Park, Brazos River, Flooding, Purple Finch, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Vermillion Flycatcher, White-faced Ibis, Yardbirds17 Comments

Big Bend Birding: Off The Grid

Posted on December 8, 2018December 27, 2021 by Shannon

A digital photo post, celebrating the birds and living (temporarily) analog.

Posted in Birds, NatureTagged Autumn, Big Bend National Park, Big Bend NP, Birding, Black-crested Titmouse, Black-throated Sparrow, Cactus Wren, Camping, Canyon Towhee, Mexican Jay, Pyrruloxia, Say's Phoebe, Top Posts24 Comments

Skunked. By a Blackbird. (Twice.)

Posted on November 28, 2018December 27, 2021 by Shannon

We may not have gotten the blackbird, but we got so much more.

Posted in Animals, Birds, Conservation, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged Alligator, American Kestrel, Birding, Brazoria NWR, Crested Caracara, Nothern Harrier, Red-tailed Hawk, Rusty Blackbird, San Bernard NWR, Skunk11 Comments

L I B, M R Ducks!

Posted on October 24, 2018December 27, 2021 by Shannon

Photo post in anticipation of the arrival of the Gulf Coast wintering ducks.

Posted in BirdsTagged Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Blue-winged Teal, Bufflehead, Canvasback, Gadwall, Green-winged Teal, Hooded Merganser, Mottled duck, Northern Shoveler, Red-breasted Merganser, Redhead, Ring-necked Duck, Winter, Wood duck15 Comments

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