OutdoorsAugust 13, 2024
Fishin' Hole Nature: The Mississippi Kite
Fishin' Hole Nature: The Mississippi Kite Sometimes known as a Southern Hawk, the Mississippi Kite is a small beautiful raptor that comes to our area each summer.
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Bronwyn Clear
OutdoorsJune 10, 2024
Fishin' Hole Nature: Red-Shouldered Hawks
Fishin' Hole Nature: Red-Shouldered Hawks Red-shouldered Hawks are small forest raptors, and luckily for us they live here year-round as permanent residents of East Texas!
OutdoorsMay 1, 2024
Fishin' Hole Nature: Wolf Creek Park, Perfect Place for Nest Boxes
Fishin' Hole Nature:Wolf Creek Park, Perfect Place for Nest Boxes [caption id="attachment_21772" align="alignnone" width="1462"] Trinity River Authority’s Wolf Creek Park in San Jacinto County.
OutdoorsMarch 1, 2024
Fishin’ Hole Nature: Winter Bird Rafts – A Collective Harmony
Fishin’ Hole Nature: Winter Bird Rafts – A Collective Harmony [caption id="attachment_21450" align="alignnone" width="336"] A large winter bird raft starts hunting on Lake Livingston.[/caption] “Birds of a feather flock together”.
OutdoorsNovember 1, 2023
The Dazzling Colors of Feathers
The Dazzling Colors of Feathers [caption id="attachment_20539" align="alignleft" width="223"] Is it boring to see a bird with only brown and black melanin pigmentation?
OutdoorsOctober 1, 2023
The Pink-Feathered Roseate Spoonbills
Fishing Hole Nature: The Pink-Feathered Roseate Spoonbills [caption id="attachment_20318" align="aligncenter" width="516"] Although unrelated to flamingos, spoonbills gain their pink coloring the same way that flamingos do, by digging up and eating carotenoid-rich crawfish, shrimp, and algae.
OutdoorsAugust 1, 2023
Our Many Different Woodpeckers
Fishing Hole Nature: Our Many Different Woodpeckers [caption id="attachment_19984" align="alignleft" width="277"] Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers are woodpeckers.
OutdoorsMarch 8, 2023
Mean as an Old Coot
Fishing Hole Nature: Mean as an Old Coot Coots, also known as mud hens, have fierce red eyes, black heads, dark gray feathered bodies, a hint of white wing edges, and bright white beaks.
OutdoorsDecember 1, 2022
Fishing Hole Nature: Leaves Make Fine Desserts!
Fishing Hole Nature: Leaves Make Fine Desserts!
