Author: Steve

The weather is warmer.

Nice day for a walk.

Axis deer.

Spotted like a fawn, but it’s a full-size deer.  Not native to South Texas.  An exotic introduced in the 1930s from India, now with a well-established population throughout the Hill Country.

Pretending he’s standing in front of a mirror.

We’ve been enjoying days in the 80s but the arctic blast has finally made it here.  Now we’re doomed to highs in the 40s and 50s until the end of the week.

We’re expecting considerable sympathy from everyone we know.

Not a common duck for us.  Like most North American ducks, they spend summers up north, mostly in Canada and Alaska.  Winter in the south as far down as Mexico.  Sometimes we go an entire year without seeing one.  This year I got lucky and found a few early.

Distinctive.  Red head.  Sloping face from the top of the head to the tip of the bill.  White back.  I wish I had really good pictures of them to share, but I don’t.  They were kind of far away.  The best one I got was this.

Good enough to prove I was there anyway.