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My Best Photography Captures of 2016

By: Christena January 21, 2017July 4, 2018

Christena's PhotographyCarlsbad Caverns, Dog love, Dog Rescue, Friends of High Plains NWR, Friendship, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, National Parks, Thank youLeave a Comment

Reflecting on 2016 it was a bad and good year combined. However, while it is a year I want to soon forget and not remember, my photography captured moments that will remain in my heart. Out of the all the images I captured in 2016 it seems these are the ones that were the most…

Reflections of a November Day at the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge

By: Christena December 18, 2016January 23, 2018

Nature StoriesGetOutside, Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, Naturalist View, Texas Refuges, USFWS, Wildlife Conservation, Wildlife EncountersLeave a Comment

It’s a temperate day of around 60 degrees. Not a cloud is in the sky and a gentle breeze is blowing. As I’m driving along I spot a few prairie dogs eating. I have no idea what they can be consuming in the barren landscape they’ve created. Three cottontails appear running off into the…

Looking Into the Eyes of a Porcupine

By: Christena September 24, 2015August 11, 2024

Nature StoriesMallet Ranch, Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, Porcupine, Texas Refuges, Texas Wildlife, Wildlife Photography2 Comments

Hiking the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge always reveals something new. On a cool, cloudy, and almost completely overcast day, we happened upon a grove of hackberry trees. After following Barry through the tall grass we came up under the trees. For some reason something made me look up to my right into the tree and…

The Voice of a Meadowlark

By: Christena February 20, 2015February 20, 2015

Christena's PhotographyAvian, Grulla National Wildlife Refuge, Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, Nature Stories, New Mexico Wildlife, Sturnella neglecta, Texas Wildlife, Western Meadowlark, Wildlife Photography2 Comments

You’re stopped on the High Plains of Texas, get out of your car and then you hear a call that sounds like a low throaty explosive chuck. Then the sound turns into a rich flute-like jumble of gurgling notes descending the music scale. If you are stopped anywhere in the High Plains of Texas along…