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Whitetail Deer In Dallas -- A Cool Link To Share
What are sure to be the very best photos ever taken of whitetail deer in Dallas can be found at the DFW Urban Wildlife website run by Chris Jackson. His website to check out the deer photos can be...
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Airboating for alligator gar, a deer sighting and tropical birds at Joppa...
The guy above is at the Loop 12 Boat Ramp after what he described as a "near fatal encounter" with the McCommas Bluff Lock and Dam on the evening of May 27, 2012. He was alligator gar hunting on this...
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Last Of the Spring Wildflowers on the Trinity River
With summer at the doorstep the last crop of wildflowers at McCommas Bluff Preserve are making a final brilliant show. The Bluebonnets, Paintbrush, Foxglove and Indian Blanket have given way to...
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Transit of Venus and Full Moon Rise Over The Trinity
There was a little black spot on the sun today. Venus. The photos of Venus Transit were taken in Dallas, Texas in the Trinity River bottom on the evening of June 5, 2012. The Transit was visible across...
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Trinity River Wetlands -- The Early Morning Birds Of Summer
The sun rises early in June. Before 7am it climbs above the Trinity River in Dallas quickly burning off the fog and dew that built up the night before. The early morning is a special time to be on the...
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White Rock Big Spring Threatened
A story older than Texas itself. One that has been told and retold countless times in English, Spanish, French, Comanche and Caddo. A story told in those languages at the very spot seen above over two...
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Dawn Patrol Of The Swamp Coyotes
Swamp Coyotes in the Great Trinity Forest dawn June 23, 2012Staring down three coyotes at 6:00 on a summer saturday morning among a labyrinth of head high swamp grass is quite a way to start a day. I...
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River Otter In The Great Trinity Forest
North American River Otter in Great Trinity Forest Dallas Texas June 30, 2012A rare sight indeed to see a River Otter inside the city limits of Dallas. Many fishermen, hunters and outdoorsmen can spend...
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Wild Pigs, Wood Storks and Spoonbills Of Dallas
Where the wild things are. A special place that for a few weeks serves as a backdrop that I'm not sure even an African safari could rival. These are scenes that had me shaking my head, amazed to see...
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Water Quality Test At White Rock Spring
Ahh yes, the cool unfiltered 68-70 degree water of White Rock Spring in the Great Trinity Forest sure does look like a thirst quencher on a day when the temperature is 102 degrees in the shade. Running...
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Bastille Day With The Swamp Coyotes
Quoi ! des cohortes étrangères Feraient la loi dans nos foyers ! Quoi ! Ces phalanges mercenaires -La MarseillaiseWhat! Foreign cohorts Would make the law in our homes! What! These mercenary...
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Roseate Spoonbills Put The Trinity In Pink
A sighting of Roseate Spoonbills in North Texas is a rare and special occasion. Their occurrence as a casual summer visitor to the Great Trinity Forest has not been well documented so seeing one, a...
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Great Trinity Forest By Moonlight
Daytime temperatures soar well over one hundred degrees in Dallas during early August. The chance to encounter some of the larger animals living in the Great Trinity Forest really drops off as a...
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Twilight Over The Great Trinity Forest
Thunderhead viewed from atop McCommas Bluff, August 2012If I squint my eyes long enough through the late afternoon haze I just might find what I'm looking for. Takes awhile though. Seven miles away and...
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Trinity Trail Between The Levees -- A Promised Path By 2014
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in...
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Birds of September -- Tropical Bird Redux On The Trinity
In recent decades it has become customary, and right I guess, and easy enough with hindsight, to damn the ancestral frame of mind that ravaged the world so fully and so soon. What I myself seem to damn...
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Deep Ellum Shared Bike Lanes On Main and Lamar a ride to the river
Sharrows are what cyclists call them. Shared Lane Markers, Cycling Chevrons, Yield To Cyclist Markers, they go by many names. A symbol that resembles a bicycle under a roof, stenciled into the road. If...
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Hiking The Great Trinity Forest In The Footsteps Of Sam Houston and Billy Ray
It would be hard to find a better way on the autumnal equinox to conclude the last hours of summer than a hike along the Trinity River. A great way to spend some time with some old friends and meet...
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McCommas Bluff Is Finished
Wealthy is he who finds the silver lining in life’s unexpected vistas. That’s the beauty of the contrary nature found along the Trinity River. Photogenic places that belong in a calendar spread for a...
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Ghost Of An Old Swamp In The Great Trinity Forest
Unpretentious. Gritty. Genuine. A backward neck of the woods turned wet six months of the year rarely visited and rarely explored. A place where the pavement ends. These are The Bottoms. A mix of...
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