Sandhill Cranes

If you have been outside this winter, you may have heard birds chatting above you in the sky. If you bothered to look up to see what was going on, you may have seen large birds gliding over scanning the ground for food and water. Perhaps you saw a long, thick gray...

The Playa Lake Field Day

The Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge hosted a playa lake field day on May 18th. I didn’t know much about these big puddles of water, so I decided I needed to find out more about them. By the end of the day, I decided  they tend to be misunderstood and...

A Prairie Dog Primer

Every time I drive to town I pass two fairly new prairie dog communities, don’t know if they are large enough to qualify as a prairie dog town yet, but it’s always interesting to see the activity going on. Chubby brown critters scampering here and there, others...