Sleeping Carolina Wren

Barn swallows built a nest two years ago on top of a wooden black bat, as in the mammal on our patio. We’ve left the nest alone. The nest has always remained just a swallow nest – until the last few days. Down feathers and other items kept appearing along the edges of this nest, as…

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Coyote Pups – An Update

  The first confirmed coyote pups recorded at Comanche Springs earlier this summer are still playing together in the same location. Captured on the same camera trap these growing pups were captured romping, snarling, and playing in the same area. Most of the camera traps are capturing them roaming by themselves in different locations on…

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The Loner (Or is he?)

Captured at Carlsbad Caverns National Park.     Photograph – © Christena Stephens Photography  

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Patience Grasshopper

  Every time I see this image I see a smiling grasshopper telling me, as well as reminding me to have patience!  Can you see it’s smile? The grasshopper is a Gray Bird Grasshopper Nymph.   Photograph – © Christena Stephens Photography  

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