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January 20, 2021
The dude
January 13, 2021
Shrub detailing. Free of charge.
January 5, 2021
Brainiacs
December 17, 2020
Good-bye bee
December 7, 2020
How do sanderlings manage?
October 30, 2020
Let’s save the world! 
October 30, 2020
Where to get plants from wild-collected seeds
October 21, 2020
Best little carpenter-bee ranch in Texas
September 30, 2020
Catfish 911
September 23, 2020
Cooper’s follies
September 11, 2020
Am I alone in hating September?
September 3, 2020
The Birds and the Bees (or Ladybugs)
August 26, 2020
Windy
August 20, 2020
Playing hookey
August 12, 2020
Drama
August 6, 2020
Mental health day
July 29, 2020
Ouch!
July 22, 2020
Drinking. So very much drinking.
July 16, 2020
In which your blogger admits to great stupidity
July 8, 2020
Sometimes, seeing more just means more questions
July 2, 2020
Rule Breaker
June 17, 2020
World’s Best Dad
June 10, 2020
The case for happy bees
June 3, 2020
Point of view is everything
May 20, 2020
Flight Patterns
May 20, 2020
Flight Patterns
May 20, 2020
Flight Patterns
May 12, 2020
Meet the fam
May 12, 2020
Meet the fam
April 29, 2020
Exquisite timing of migration
April 21, 2020
Houston Naturama Reboot. Week 1 redux.
April 11, 2020
Houston Naturama Challenge Week 2
April 9, 2020
Homey
March 31, 2020
Introducing the Houston Naturama Challenge
March 31, 2020
Houston Naturama Challenge Week 1
March 18, 2020
We have egg(s)…and gossip!
March 11, 2020
Africa
February 12, 2020
Getting to know you
February 5, 2020
Yellow rump v. new camera
January 29, 2020
Song Wars
January 22, 2020
Huge Cocoon for a Huge Moth
January 15, 2020
B-Side Blog Post
January 8, 2020
If you build it…
December 18, 2019
A small adventure
December 11, 2019
Dogfennel
December 4, 2019
Who’s feeding the Park?
November 27, 2019
A rule-breaking moth
November 20, 2019
Exotic, Invasive, Native
November 13, 2019
Bird guides, who knew!
November 6, 2019
November hug
October 30, 2019
A bridge full of bats
October 23, 2019
Do over
October 16, 2019
Autumn
October 9, 2019
Red and yellow will kill a fellow
October 2, 2019
Our oddball Swainson’s hawks
September 25, 2019
Jane Gregory Garden is AMAZING!
September 18, 2019
Cherokee bean v. carpenter bee
September 11, 2019
Bones of the Bayou
September 4, 2019
Dayflowers
August 28, 2019
And the winner is…frog fruit!
August 21, 2019
The jigsaw puzzle problem
August 14, 2019
The power of naming
August 7, 2019
Miracle prairie
July 31, 2019
A collection of unexpected
July 24, 2019
Wasps. Hard to love, but let’s give it a try.
July 17, 2019
Sexy Little Blue
July 10, 2019
The insect rant
July 3, 2019
Hot Spot
June 27, 2019
Bits and Bobs
June 19, 2019
Beavers, barn swallows and butterflies
June 12, 2019
As the cliff swallow colony turns…
June 4, 2019
Prairie Days (and a big chick!)
May 29, 2019
Of bird lips and baby hawks
May 21, 2019
Thistles and not thistles
May 15, 2019
Chicks!
May 8, 2019
More cliff swallow mysteries
May 1, 2019
A walk back in time
April 23, 2019
Looking down on hawks
April 18, 2019
Tiny Safari
April 10, 2019
How to Find the Red Shouldered Hawk Nest
April 3, 2019
Wild onions and a bunch of mistakes
March 27, 2019
If a bird sings in the forest but you can’t see it …
March 20, 2019
Tiny spring has sprung
March 13, 2019
Wolves!
March 6, 2019
Waxwings and Cottonwoods
February 27, 2019
Rain.
February 20, 2019
What’s for dinner
February 13, 2019
Two Egrets Hunting
February 6, 2019
Snowy Egret v. Cormorant
January 30, 2019
Plan B
January 22, 2019
Stranger in a Strange Land
January 16, 2019
Beavers in the Park
January 9, 2019
Killer!
December 19, 2018
One bad dude
December 12, 2018
In which your naturalist admits to muddled thinking
December 5, 2018
One Weird Egret
November 28, 2018
Ol’ Blue Eyes
November 20, 2018
Our Park is getting seedy!
November 14, 2018
Tasty/Deadly
November 9, 2018
The Queen Erupts!
October 31, 2018
Autumn on the Prairie
October 29, 2018
Naturalist vacation
October 18, 2018
In which a Cuban anole sheds and eats his skin!
October 11, 2018
The return of Bidens alba
October 3, 2018
Bees and Pollen
September 26, 2018
Secret Garden
September 19, 2018
What’s red and fuzzy and crawls on the ground?
September 13, 2018
Sunflowers and Leaf-cutters
September 5, 2018
Frog Fruit
August 29, 2018
So what is a heron, anyway?
August 22, 2018
Green Heron Hunting
August 15, 2018
The Other Night Heron
August 9, 2018
Butterfly Eyes
August 1, 2018
Hawk v. Grackle
July 25, 2018
Why Here?
July 18, 2018
Still Herons
July 3, 2018
Which end is which?
June 27, 2018
A dark and quiet magic
June 20, 2018
Snaaaaaakes!
June 13, 2018
Drama and Mystery in the Cliff Swallow Colony
June 5, 2018
Seeds of a blog post
May 30, 2018
One Hour @: The Base of McGovern Cascade
May 23, 2018
What’s this dragonfly doing?
May 14, 2018
Starlings and all that racket
May 8, 2018
So what’s with all the silt?
April 30, 2018
Swallows return to Buffalo Bayou
February 28, 2018
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