What is Slash? When our wildlife plan suggested we create brush piles and maintain “slash” I had no idea what slash meant. Well, below is a photo of slash, an architecturally stunning, mixed use high rise for birds in a prime location in the Little Piney area of the Lost Pines, Bastrop, Texas! Maintaining slashContinue reading
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Slash: A Mixed Use High Rise Development for Birds
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Wet Weather Spring, Robber Fly, and Nest Box Blues
Wet-weather Spring Dragonfly Pond was a gift of the Memorial Day weekend rains in Central Texas. This lovely pond is usually more of a shallow bog, maybe a foot deep at the deepest point. Water seeps out of its sandy bottom with the usual light rains we have. When we first saw a reddishContinue reading
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Nest Box Surprises
Newly hatched Eastern Bluebirds When I checked Box 2 by Dragonfly Pond today, I found two tiny baby bluebirds nestled together with three unhatched eggs . I’ve never seen baby birds this young before, all pink and blue with little wispy beginnings of feathers on their heads. If you zoom in you can seeContinue reading
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Winter Birds in Bastrop TX
Winter birds are plentiful in Bastrop County. I photographed these winter friends in January and February this year, my first two months at Little Piney (our home in Bastrop). Of course there are more birds I haven’t captured on film–Yellow-rumped Warblers, a Belted Kingfisher, a Pileated Woodpecker, all kinds of Sparrows, Cardinals flashing red throughoutContinue reading