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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...

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! ...

Fishin' Hole Nature:Wolf Creek Park, Perfect Place for Nest Boxes   In 2014 the Piney Wood Lakes Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalists received permission from...

Fishin’ Hole Nature: Winter Bird Rafts – A Collective Harmony “Birds of a feather flock together”.  That’s the saying, but it’s not always the case. ...

Fishing Hole Nature: Cardinals Rule! What better bird to see than a bright red bird in wintertime?  The crest on the top of his head...

The Dazzling Colors of Feathers Birds can be such glorious colors…reds, blues, greens, oranges, yellows, and some are even iridescent!  We humans see a particular...

Fishing Hole Nature: The Pink-Feathered Roseate Spoonbills The pink-feathered Roseate Spoonbills are special, and not found only in Florida or Galveston!  We have them...

Fishing Hole Nature: Our Many Different Woodpeckers When you live in East Texas, woodpeckers are a common sight - Red-Headed, Hairy, Pileated, Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker, Red-Bellied,...

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...

Fishing Hole Nature: Snake Bite! We are fortunate to have worldwide experts in venomous snake bite treatments in our area. Some doctors and veterinarians work...