Couldn't resist another visit to Lake Balmorhea. Ebird had showed quite a few birders going there on the 16th, so I went on the 17th, ho...

I went to the oasis a couple of days ago to water trees. Had to get into the tank to move the pump deeper into water. It was icy cold so I h...

I took the opportunity to ride along with my son to my daughter's place in Rockport for the holiday. Had hoped to see 100 species in the...

Kudos to frequent oasis visitor, Matt Walter, whose oasis photo of a Gray Fox graced the front page of the local newspaper, The Big Bend Se...

Now that my creative son is living almost full time at the oasis, he decided to make a pizza oven ( horno or earh oven).  It's a lot of...

In 2011 we had our dryest year ever, with only 2.25" of rain for the year. This year is shaping up to be the second dryest year. So far...

Had my first Johnson Ponds Wilson's Snipe when I got back to town from watering trees yesterday. Here's a link to a second podcast ...

I've been blogging for fifteen years now and decided to peruse as many of my over 2700 blog posts as I could stand to. While I can't...

 A Wood Thrush showed up at my Alpine ponds habitat four or five days ago. When I first saw a very brief shaded glimpse of basically its he...

Yesterday morning in Alpine I got my first * ebird  Blue-headed Vireo for   Brewster County, which was exciting! (Alas, no time to focus th...

Started watering at daylight this morning, hoping I'd have enough energy to finish. When I saw new bear damage, I figured cleaning up th...

A group of naturalists visited the oasis yesterday. I wished I could have been there. I was stuck in town recovering from a stomach virus th...

Yesterday late afternoon, when it was too dark for decent photos, I took this photo of what I posted on ebird as an Anna's Hummingbird. ...

Hanging in there, keeping my spirits up. Yesterday the oasis got a small shower, no runoff, but I'm grateful for any rain we get. Also c...

It's a testament to my determination that javelina haven't destroyed the back water drip since I re-strengthened it a few years ago....