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"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying anyway."
~ Mary Kay Ash
Texas Wildlife
Brown Pelican
Sea Turtle
Blue Crab
Squirrel
Spiny lizards are arboreal and diurnal.
Striped Bark Scorpion -venomous, but not deadly
Hermit Crab
Duck
Sand Dollar
Cannonball Jellyfish
Seagulls
t Argiope aurantia (Black and yellow garden spider)
Sparrow
Great Plains Rat Snake
Texas Critter presentation available October 2011!
Texas is a great place to bird watch. Courtney and I got interested in bird watching when we lived in Ft. Worth, Texas and had Eastern Bluebirds move into our backyard. We watched pelicans, great white egrets, and blue herons from our deck in Corpus Christi, Texas. Some common birds to watch for in Texas are: mourning dove, Eastern screech-owl, black-chinned hummingbird, ruby-throated hummingbird, golden-fronted woodpecker, blue jay, and tufted tiftmouse. Since we moved to Central Texas, we enjoy watching roadrunners in our yard. We just bought a new camera, so we're looking forward to taking some more pictures to post soon! ~Erik
This is a skink we found at our family's farm. I caught him for the picture and then released him. He was fast!
~Courtney
Rebel, pictured right, is the only wild caught critter that we've kept. We received a call from a family who found the snake in their backyard in Corpus Christi, Texas. Many people are afraid of snakes and will kill them. Great Plains Rat snakes may be mistaken for rattlesnakes, a common venomous snake in Texas. Great Plains Rat Snakes are naturally non-venomous. All snakes help by keeping the rodent population under control.
There are 8 species of skinks in Texas. Skinks are beneficial to gardens because they eat many insects.
Arboreal - living in trees
Diurnal - awake during the day
Marsupials give birth to underdeveloped young called 'joeys'. Marsupials have pouches, like the opossum and kangaroo. Other marsupial's young cling by instinct to the mother's underbelly.
The brown pelican was removed from the endangered list in 2009!
Pelicans hanging out by a marina in Corpus Christi, Texas
Blue Heron
Erik and I had a Blue Heron that liked to sleep on our deck when we lived on Padre Island in Corpus Christi, Texas. We called him 'Fabio.' Blue Herons stand about 4 1/2 feet tall with a wing span over 6 feet!
Opossums are nocturnal critters. They are awake at night and sleep during the day.
Turkey Vulture at Knolle Dairy Farms near Sandia, Texas
This is a fledgling, a young bird learning to fly. My grandmother's dog found her in the backyard, and we took the fledgling to a man who rehabilitates birds.
Check out the tracks this little spider
is making in the sand dunes!
