Pelicans have made a remarkable comeback along the Gulf Coast in the past 30 years. Back when I was in high school, and spending as much time as we could at the beach, the pelican had all but disappeared from around here. Today all day long you will see flights of pelicans playing follow the leader, all in a straight line, along the waves.
A common sight out my kitchen window at any time of the year. This old stub of a limb is a favorite place of the neighborhood squirrels. Out of reach of cats and dogs, hidden from the hawks…A great place to munch on an acorn or two…
This little guy and his two siblings were born and lived for a while under our house. It was quite amusing each evening to watch them wander out and begin to root about in the yard and flowerbeds looking for supper. If I lived in suburbia and had a manicured yard I probably wouldn’t have been so amused. But for the span of a few weeks we enjoyed their antics each day at sundown…
I looked up from my computer and there sat this moth on the outside of the window beside me. The back-lighting conveyed all of the details in the wings. The spring green of the trees and grass just blurred into a soft green background…
Another trip to the wildlife refuge…There is nothing quite like trying to capture a bird in flight…
On of the things I like about living on Texas Gulf Coast is the number of raptors we have in the area all winter long. This one was caught in the Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge, one of my favorite killers of day long batches of time…
