Close Encounters of the Wildlife Kind

by | Jan 24, 2020 | Bright Lights

We had a visit from a possum last night,  those much-maligned marsupials that look like a large rodent with thin hair. This is not the first time they have visited, of course. A few years ago, two little babies played possum in the fern bed as I routed the dogs away...
Invasion of the Cute Little Dinosaurs

Invasion of the Cute Little Dinosaurs

by | Sep 30, 2009 | Bright Lights

For the past ten years I have counted horny toads for Texas Parks and Wildlife. Okay, so they they really aren’t toads, nor frogs (sorry, TCU people); they are lizards. I know that. But I grew up calling them horny toads, as I suspect, nearly everyone else in...