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As we flew into Midland-Odessa Texas from Dallas-Fort Worth it was easy to notice that the ground was pocked with extraction stuff. Hundreds and hundreds of pads from which gas and oil was being drawn to the surface; pad after pad from which fracking takes place deep underground and oil pumps hum. The smell ofContinue reading “Texas Tea; oil and gas and money”

Please treat images as copyrighted and contact me if you would like to use an image. Thank you. The Bat-eared Fox is a small canid; both diurnal and nocturnal, and an avid hunter … of termites! Yup, they really are designed (adapted) to find, follow, and eat Harvester Termites (often called Harvester Ants). The earsContinue reading “Africa’s Bat-eared Foxes”

Islands are dynamic wild laboratories. Picture a block of sea floor lifted from the abyss by tectonic action or a steaming pile of lava rising from the boiling water as the earth’s innards are expelled upward. Each of these could become a remote isolated island surrounded by salt water; barren and empty. Now picture yourselfContinue reading “Island Biogeography”

Please treat all images as copyrighted. Contact me if you want to use any photo. Thanks, DEC. The nearest relative to any of the boobies which can be see in northern hemisphere waters (Atlantic only) is the Northern Gannet. Aside from the Sea of Cortez in Mexican waters where occasional Blue-footed Booby sightings are recorded,Continue reading “Galapagos (#2) Boobies”

The Galapagos are small volcanic islands about 600 miles off the South American coast, almost due west of Ecuador. They were formed, and are still forming, from an active hot-spot area on the edge of a tectonic plate moving to the southeast. Thus the oldest islands are in the east and the newer ones inContinue reading “Galapagos – 2019 #1”

Please consider all images too be copyrighted; contact me if you want too use an image. Thank you. Feeding the birds is a special treat during the winter. Many bird species seek out the extra calories and readily take advantage of our offerings. Sunflower (either in or out of the shell), thistle or niger, whiteContinue reading “Yard Birds and Winter Water”