Return to Little Piney After being away for a month, I was happy to be heading home to Little Piney, and anxious to see what the 100+ temperatures and scarce rain had wrought. As I pulled up to the house in hot mid-afternoon, Little Piney was silent and still except for three squawking crows.Continue reading
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Home to Little Piney
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Bluebird Nest Boxes for Total Beginners
How to Install Bluebird Nest Boxes Little Piney hosts a healthy population of Eastern Bluebirds. They are encouraged to settle here by good habitat and available real estate. We have 7 bluebird nest boxes put in place several years ago by previous owners. Recently, I removed all nest boxes for cleaning and fresh paint,Continue reading
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Slash: A Mixed Use High Rise Development for Birds
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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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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The Nest Box Report–Baby chickadees!
When we acquired Little Piney, we took on a wildlife management plan already in action. As part of the wildlife plan, we became custodians of 7 Bluebird nest boxes. After we located all 7 little bird houses on poles, we made sure the boxes were cleaned out and ready for residents. That involves removing oldContinue 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
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In love with Bastrop, Texas and the Lost Pines Life
The Lost Pines Life I have the incredible good fortune along with my husband to be the new owners of “Little Piney,” 23 beautiful acres in the Lost Pines of Bastrop County, Texas. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this area, the Lost Pines is an isolated pine forest at least 100 milesContinue reading