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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Protectors of the Water Monument

  Photograph – © Christena Stephens  

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Camera Trap Captures After Winter Storm Goliath

  Winter storm Goliath dumped upwards of two to three feet of snow in Texas towards the end of the 2015. Strong, violent winds created snowdrifts as high as eight to ten feet. Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus received around 12 inches or more of snow from this storm. I checked my camera traps on January…

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