Pictures and sounds
from Mesquite Wildlife Area
People
The trailmaker
The volunteer(Charles Tubbs)
Garden designer(John
Siemsen)
Bob Norris starts a bird
census, counts ducks
counts more ducks,
checks elm grove, checks dickcissels in
weedy field
Victoria Manning announces a party
at the barn
BBQ and burger man
Comalbirders
visit 11/21/2009
wet-footed birders; David
Pueppke, Charles Tubbs and Bob Norris
David Pueppke, Bob
Norris, and Charles Tubbs view ducks
Birding in the fog, David
Pueppke and Bob Norris
Lee Pasquali
photographing a Say's Phoebe
Flora
Woody
Acacia
Pommegranite
Daggers more daggers early bud, mid bud, late bud
Huisache
Cedar Em
young leaves 1, 2
Gum bumelia; leaf
variations Tree
form variation in 15-20' trees large size
Hawthorn buds
Live Oak tree,
spring
pollen tassels, acorns,
discussion
and
more pics
Chinaberry 1, berries
Elbowbush
Poison Ivy rash
Non-woody
Buffalo Gourd
Blue-eyed Grass
Erect Dayflower close up, carpet
Devil's Claw
Skullcap
Mealy sage plant
close up
Scarlet (Tropical)
Sage
Bluebonnet
1,
clump at dawn
close up
Agarita
buds early flowering,
peak flowering
Prickly
pear
growing on old
mesquite, flowering,
more flowering, blossom
Tasajillo cactus
Verbena typical,
albino
Southern Anemone 1,
2, seeding
Indian
Blanket (Firewheel) close,
plant
Sow Thistle
Texas Thistle
White Prickly Poppy
Texas Yellowstar
Umbelliferae
Yellow Evening
Primrose plant,
close up
Pink Evening
Primrose
Dandilion
clover
Vetch
Stiff-stem Flax
Venus Looking Glass? plant, flower
wild mustard flowerhead,
scene
Smartweed plant, flower
Texas Bindweed
Yellow Wood Sorrel
wild onion
puccoon
Phacelia plant 1, 2
close up
Silverleaf Nightshade
Misseltoe
Blackbery close
up blossoms, vines
flowering
Balloon Plant
Lily Pads in the lake
Old Man's Beard
Stinging Nettle
Lichen
Teloschistes
chrysophthalmus (Gold Eye Lichen)
Lichen
assemblage on a limb
Parasitic
Japanese Dodder plant, close up
Fungus
Toadstool
in a tree
Toadstool
on the ground
Fauna
Mammals
Whitetail deer
Deer horn
by Kolenberg elm woods
Buck skull
by Schwarzlose
Doe in
Schwarzlose woods 3/14/2010
Buck near
Kohlenberg 4/21/2010
Gray Fox
encounter
7/22/09 both adults carrying Mourning Dove and headless
cottontail to den
photos 2/15/2010 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Coyote print
in mud, another mud print,
poop with
cottontail fur
Raccoon 1, 2 tracks,
better tracks
Cottontail 1, 2 seen 3/14/2010 3 seen 8/8/2010 4 seen 9/4/2010
Feral cat by the barn
animal paths 1,
2
Reptiles & Amphibians
Snakes
Diamondback
Watersnake
young,
dead at Kohlenberg bridge, 5/31/2009
adult
9/18/09, below the dam same adult 3/13/2010,
adult's head
unidentified
nonpoisonous watersnake with no body markings, reddish-brown
3/26/2010
Prairie Kingsnake body, head
Turtles
turtle
crossing Kohlenberg 2/21/2010
turtle in un-named pond
between garden and
little elm grove 4/25/2010
Red-eared
Turtle at Kohlenberg
3/13/2010, crossing
the main dam 4/12/2010, head closeup
Frogs and Toads
Gulf Coast Toad audiomp3 format Heard and
recorded 4/23/2010 Images
from 7/24/2010: 1, 2 3
Spotted
Chorus Frog picture,
4/25/2010 audiomp3 format in
flooded grass 2/27/2010
more audio
3/6/2010
Blanchard"s
Cricket Frog sitting,
croaking,
4/25/2010 audiomp3 format Heard
3/6/2010 &
3/13/2010; recorded 3/26/2010
sitting 8/8/2010
Fish
minnows in main creek 8/8/2010 1, 2
Invertebrates
Snails
flat snail
Polygyra?
elongate
snail Radbotus?
Exotic snails
Rumina dicollata 1, 2
Milk Snail or Brown Garden Snail
Worms
Earthworm
Arthropods
Crustacean
Isopods
Pill
Bugs
Crayfish carapace, living
Spiders
typical orbweaver web
tiny spider, maybe Branch
Tip spider
Yellow
Garden Spider close
up, with
prey
Banded
Garden Spider
unidentified sticky
donut spinner
unidentified
small furry spider
Green
Lynx Spider
Crab spider
Long-jawed
Orbweaver Spider
Agriope aurantia
Orbweaver
Wolf
Spider
Insects
Dragonflies
a nymph in the main
creek
Green Darner 1, 2
Comet Darner female
Spangled Skimmer
Variegated Meadowhawk on ground
more on ground
on plant
Easteren Amberwing male
Eastern
Pondhawk male,
female
Blue Dasher 1, 2
Yellow-sided Skimmer
Widow Skimmer male, female
Common Whitetail male, female 1, 2
Red Saddlebags males 1,
2,
female 1,
2
Four Spotted Pennant
Halloween Pennant
unidentified dragonflies: 1,
Damselflies
Bluet below dam, behind dike east side of
lake, eating a
corn borer
Common Spreadwing 1, 2
Orange Bluet
Argia
lipunctulata
Argia fumipennis
violacea
Vivid Dancer
Mayflies
Small mayfly(Baetidae sp)
Crickets
Gryllus Field Cricket
Eastern Striped Cricket sonogram, audio(.wav file)
Katydids
Thread-legged Katydid
Grasshoppers
American Bird
Grasshopper 1, 2
tiny infant grasshopper
Spur-throated
Grasshopper
Pallid-winged
Grasshopper
Two-striped grasshopper
Xanthipus.corallipus
Grasshopper
Termites
Aphids aphid
parade, parade
close up
Gall-inducing
insects
hackberry gall
Bugs
Aquatic bugs
Water
Boatman in the pond below the dam 3/13/2010
Waterstriders swarm on lake 7/24
Assassin Bugs
Pselliopus barberi
Box Elder bugs at
a decaying
willow, in the woods
Scarlet Plant Bug
Eastern Leaf-footed Bug 1, 2
Stink bugs
Podisus.sp stink
bug
Southern Green
Stinkbug
Conchuela stink bug
unidentified stink bug
Beetles
ladybugs larvae
Nine-spot
1,
Asian Multicolored
Ladybug
woodborers
Lacewings
Green Lacewing
Owlflies
Ant Lions
group, close up
Butterflies
Giant Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail
Eastern Tiger
Swallowtail
Checkered White
Gray Hairstreak
Juniper Hairstreak
Clouded Sulphur 1, 2
Dainty Sulphur
Little Yellow
Sleepy Orange
Orange Sulphur
Variegated
Fritillary
Bordered Patch 1, 2, 3
Question Mark Comma
Butterfly male
Red Admiral
Common Buckeye
Goatweed Leafwing
Common Mestra
Monarch 1, 2
Queen
Checkered Skipper
Funereal Duskywing
Skipper
Fiery Skipper 1, 2
Clouded Skipper (Northern
Cloudywing) male 1, 2
Olympia Marble
Hackberry Emperor, 1, 2
Snout
Moths
Grapeleaf Skeletonizer
Bagworm moth cocoon
micromoth
European Corn
Borer 1,
2
Tiger Moth odd
patterned
Io Moth 1, 2
Flies
Housefly 1, 2, 3
Flower Flies irridesence in the
wings
Sphegina sp?
Robber Flies
Laphystia sp
Bee Flies
Exoprosopa 1,
2
Tachinid Flies
Archytas.sp 1,
2
Trichopoda.sp
Domestic Bees
(honeybees)
Mesquite tree hive, west side of
wildlife management property
in summer
2009 slightly blurry
in
winter, late 2009 fairly sharp pictures
winter
January 2010, better pictures
Oak tree hive, far east side of
wildlife management property
hive entrance 3/20/2010
pollenating
flowering bushes 3/13/2010 pollinating a primrose
4/21
Wasps
Yellowjacket
nest in
Palo Verde Yellowjacket
close up
Sphecid wasp
Red
Wasp
paper wasp Polistes.exclamans
unidentified
wasp
Green
Bees(Halictinae)
Green bee 1, 2
Sweat Bees
Halictidae
Bumble Bees
American Bumble Bee 1, 2
Woodwasps
Xiphydria.sp
Carpenter bee 1, 2
Ants
fire
ants
mound
ant,
unidentified but not fire ant
Velvet Ant
Timulla.sp 1, 2
Birds
Pied-billed
Grebe 1, 2
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Great Egret 1,
2
Tricolored Heron
Little Blue Heron
Green Heron
Cattle Egret
Snowy Egret 1,
2
Turkey Vulture 1,
2, 3
Black Vulture
Blue-winged Teal 1, flying
Cinnamon Teal
Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Mississippi Kite
Northern Harrier female,
male 1, 2, 3, 4
Cooper's Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk on a dark day at dawn flapping soaring1 soaring2 gliding
Red-shanked Gas Hawk
Caracara
Bobwhite call: 1st, 2nd
Coot
Kildeer
Caspian Tern 1,
pair
Eurasian Collared Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Ground Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Barn Owl
Chuck-will's-widow (audio
from 4/23/2010) 1 2
Chimney swift roost
Black-chinned
Hummingbird
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 1, 2
Ladderback Woodpecker on a tree on a pole
Eastern Phoebe 1,
2
Say's Phoebe 1,
2, 3
Vermillion
Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Shrike 1,
2
Crows
Tree Swallow 1,
2
Rough-winged Swallow 1,
2, 3
Cave swallow 1,
Barn Swallow 1,
2
Chickadee
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1, 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Robin 1, 2
Mockingbird 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Cedar Waxwing flock group, eating missletoe berries,
close up
Rear-tailed Evader
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Summer Tanager
Cassin's Sparrow habitat,
and song, and spectrogram
Clay-colored
Sparrow 1,
2, 3
Field Sparrow at
Domino's pond
near Schwarzlose woods
Vesper Sparrow 1,
2
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow below
dam along the creek,
at the lakeshore,
in weeds
Grasshopper
Sparrow at
the gate near
Schwarzlose woods, in mesquite woods,
with a Vesper
Sparrow, singing
in Palo Verde
Le Conte's Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow in
habitat close
up
Harris Sparrow near
headquarters near
Schwarzlose woods
White-crowned Sparrow male
female
eating hackberry
eating bugs
Cardinal dark
day
Blue Grosbeak
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel 1,
2, 3
Red-winged
Blackbird perched,
singing,
flock
Meadowlark
Brown-headed
Cowbird single
male, pair
Bullock's Oriole female
House Finch 1,
2
House Sparrow
Fossils
Cretaceous pelecypod Exogyra
ponderosa, Exogyra
holding rainwater
Time Lapse
late
winter to spring from the dike overlooking the
north shore, 2012
Landscapes and
scenics
A dry pond
Mesquite grassland
Huisache grassland
Edge of Schwarzlose woods
Cold morning on
the nature trail
wet pasture
more wet pasture
feather floating in a pond
Eagle Scout Pond
little elm
woods in early spring at sunrise
Early dawn
cemetary
wildflower mix
Schwarzlose Pond with
water in spring
bird tracks along the
creek
Barn
pictures;
click here for barn article and pictures
Other
possible artifact
burl on mesquite