July 20, 2024
AN INVASION IN NEW WAVERLY Have you seen the Alfred Hitchcock movie, “The Birds”? My daughter in New Waverly says she feels like she’s living in […]
June 10, 2024
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! Aptly […]
June 3, 2024
Communing With Nature: The herons and egrets, and in fact all birds, are descended from Tyrannosaurus Rex Nearly extinct at the beginning of the 20th Century […]
May 1, 2024
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 […]
April 1, 2024
Communing With Nature: Nesting in the Pineywoods The West Gulf Coastal Plain, known by Texans as the Pineywoods, is the most forested part of the State […]
March 1, 2024
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. Bird […]
February 1, 2024
Communing with Nature: Polk County Christmas Bird Count Delivers Mixed Results Binoculars and maps, water, cameras, and phone apps were ready, as 14 Piney Wood Lakes […]
February 1, 2024
Creature Chronicles: Winter Feeding It’s much easier for birds and squirrels to find food in the summer but it’s challenging in the winter. There are about […]
January 1, 2024
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 and […]
