Yucca sp. growing at the edge of the meadow in Oak Point Nature Preserve.
Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia) were foraging in the cattails along the lakeshore.
at the Plano Outdoor Learning Center
| After an unseasonably warm week it rained and temperatures dropped below freezing, creating a patchwork of ice patterns at Oak Point Nature Preserve. It was a cold and windy morning. | |
| Ice patterns at Oak Point Nature Preserve | |
| Yellow-rumped Warblers (Dendroica coronata) were all over the park in search of food. | |
| One was not so lucky. It ended up as a food cache for a Loggerhead Shrike. The warbler was impaled on a thorn, possibly a Honey Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos). | |
| Northern Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos) sometimes become quite tame in winter when defending a patch of berries. | |
Yucca sp. growing at the edge of the meadow in Oak Point Nature Preserve. |
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Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) |
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| Two well-camouflaged Coyotes (Canis latrans) made their way through the tall grass. | |
| White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) first winter plumage | |
| Harris's Sparrow (Zonotrichia querula) | |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) | |
Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia) were foraging in the cattails along the lakeshore.
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| Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) visiting the suet feeder at the Plano Outdoor Learning Center |
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| Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) | |
| A male Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) at the Plano Outdoor Learning Center | |
| Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) | |
| American Robin (Turdus migratorius) | |
| Ring-billed Gulls (Larus delawarensis) in Bob Woodruff Park | |