by Rich Leighton | Jun 29, 2022 | Asparagaceae, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Texas, Wildflowers
The Spanish dagger is one of those plants that brings a bit of nostalgia to me. It was a very common non-native landscaping plant in my childhood in Manatee County, Florida that always had these amazing displays of flowers in the spring at the very top of the plant....
by Rich Leighton | Jun 20, 2022 | Arachnids, Invertebrates, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Spiders, Texas
It’s so strange that I’ve spent so much of my life traveling around the United States and have never seen a tarantula in the wild. I even owned a tarantula-breeding business for zoos and collectors in the 90’s, yet somehow finding one in the wild...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 17, 2022 | Fabaceae, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Texas, Uncategorized, Wildflowers
As with so much in the wild and in life, sometimes the most beautiful things can also be dangerous, such as this Texas mountain laurel I found in Harlingen, Texas a couple of months ago. The seeds that will eventually be produced after these incredibly beautiful...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 15, 2022 | Lizards, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Reptiles, Texas
Sometimes you are just walking along admiring the wildflowers like I was on this day in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, when from inside a a thicket of shrimp plants, I saw this green anole watching me carefully. I just love the turquoise color around its eye!...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 24, 2022 | Birds, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Texas, Wrens
About four or five years ago I was in Big Bend National Park in West Texas and I just missed the perfect shot of a cactus wren and it bothered me for years. A couple of weeks ago, I was in Mission, Texas looking for reptiles and while looking quietly under an enormous...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 19, 2022 | Birds, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Texas
I’ve been trying to get a decent shot of a northern cardinal (I grew up calling them red cardinals in Florida) on camera for decades! Last week I was in near Weslaco, Texas and this handsome male dropped out the trees and landed right in front of me and stayed...
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