A Mother Goose Tale
A Great Egret befriends (we hope) a group of Northern Pintail ducks in the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, living out her Mother Goose dreams (perhaps believing she’s an ugly duckling?).
Egyptian Goslings: Cute or Terrifying?
A family of Egyptian geese, Mom and Pop with two goslings, spend an afternoon along the new tributary of the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas. Egyptian goslings: cute or terrifying?
Meet the nutria neighbors
Before our cold front arrived, I spent an afternoon on the G Street trailhead. Lured off the trail by a Northern Cardinals playing in the reeds, I came across my first nutria and her pup.
The road to today’s small, brushy cedars
Yes, the mountain cedar tree, or Ashe juniper, makes for a rough allergy season but really, it doesn’t deserve its poor reputation. Diving into Ashe juniper history when researching flood management took me down a rabbit hole that uncovered some interesting facts—among them, that the much smaller size and brushy growth patterns of today’s cedars pale in comparison to their grand ancestors. Did we make cedar fever worse too?