
Breakfast time for the Bewick’s wren chicks: How big is too big?
Some of you may remember B. Kliban’s cartoon book “Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head”. It’s been around for a long time but it

Raccoon mama with 4 little ones snuggling in an owl box
A mama raccoon moved her 4 babies into one of our owl boxes in late April 2021. They stayed for only a few days. We

Ringtail doing a scorpion-tail imitation
Ringtails are named for the ring-like markings on their tails – I guess it doesn’t take a genius to figure that out. Recently, though, we

Mama raccoon and her 6 little ones setting off on an evening adventure
n 2021, one of our mama raccoons had 6 little ones (5 of her own and one adopted – he had been abandoned under the

A rattlesnake in the underground tree stump den
We rarely see rattlesnakes here, but this one was a beauty – a diamond-back, we think. At about 4ft/1.2 m long, he/she wasn’t the biggest

Roadrunner in the backyard
We have re-edited and re-narrated this video and are now putting it back up on our website. ———————————- We occasionally see roadrunners in the backyard.

Red-tailed hawk: Up close and personal
This red-tailed hawk spent about an hour and a half perched in front of a camera near one of the owl nests. We got a

Ringtail romance with a surprise ending
This is one of our favorites, and we’re republishing it now with some improvements to the video. —————————————————— Two ringtails moved into one of our

A surfeit of baby skunks: A short and sweet video
Apparently, the collective noun for a group of skunks is a “surfeit”, which, to be honest, seems a little harsh. However, one of our cameras

The birth of a bee hive: A rare inside view
Note: We refer to the worker bees as male a couple of times in the narration and of course we’re wrong. All worker bees are

Baltimore orioles on their southern migration
Baltimore orioles apparently pass through this part of Texas on their way south every fall, but we’ve never seen them before, and this sighting –

Portrait of a pair of great horned owls
This video is a collection of some of our favorite great horned owl moments. Lots of hooting and duetting, and some fabulous daylight footage of