Category: Wildlife Management

Purple Martins

It’s time to put your purple martin house up. Scouts have been spotted in San Antonio. If you know what I’m referring to this should bring a smile to your face. If you don’t…you’re missing out on great wildlife experience.…

Alamo Springs Ranch Wildlife Management Association???

I’ve been trying to figure out how to qualify our property for a wildlife management valuation (similar to Ag Exemption) without building fences and grazing cattle. (My beloved had the idea of an Ag Exemption for keeping Bee Hives for…

Bufo Valliceps – Gulf Coast Toad

Had a visitor recently. My beloved and I took our lawn chairs out to watch the meteor shower August 11th. Although we were one day early I figured we’d see some wayward, date-challenged meteors. Anyway, on the way out to the yard…

Local Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)

Let the dog out about 2:00 am this morning. After he came back in I heard a bizarre animal call that sounded a lot like a crow.  I thought it might be a fox and confirmed by listening to this…

Pajaritos (little birds)

We’re so tickled to have a family of painted buntings living in a tree behind our house. They frequent a seed feeder and drink at the trough we have set up for the deer. Sadly, these little guys are threatened…