Secret Lives of Roadrunners at Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus

Of all the animals the camera traps have captured during my wildlife research at Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus – there is one animal that adores being a ham for the cameras. Don’t ask me how it knows these are cameras set up to take images when something moves in front of the camera, but they…

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A Moment with a Mexican Ground Squirrel

In my field time at Comanche Springs, I’ve seen this little guy during the spring and summer months running about this section. He’s always afraid of the Gator and has only been captured on the nearby camera trap twice. All that changed on an overcast almost rainy day last month. He ran west from the…

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A Field of Canola

As I was driving to check my camera traps a couple of weeks ago at Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus, a field of bright yellow appeared on the horizon in Floyd County, Texas. This sea of chest-high plants was covered in tiny, bright, fluorescent yellow flowers. A slightly sweet smell drifted with the occasional winds from…

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Hiking Upper Canyon Trail at Caprock Canyons

Yesterday, was a fantastic day for Sharla and I to hike at Caprock Canyons State Park in Texas. We hiked the Upper Canyon Trail. A constant breeze was present with the temperature being in the mid-80s in the canyon. Creeks were running with water with two crows cawing and soaring over the ridgeline. The trail…

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