Posts Tagged ‘Nature and Wildlife’
By Bruce Felps Most people have about four-ish hours remaining in the workday and week, some of us even less. That, right there, was a soon-to-be self-fulfilling prophesy. With three days of weekend ahead, the question of how to fill that time arises. There are plenty of options.
By Bruce Felps Speaking of Tietze Park, and we just were, you might have noticed fences surrounding most, if not all, of the trees out there. Angela Hunt, in whose District 14 the park is located, said the fencing is there to protect the trees when work crews set about the path improvements coming soon [...]
By Bruce Felps One hundred years of history take center stage at White Rock Lake this weekend. Dallas Park and Recreation, as part of the White Rock Lake Centennial, offers two days of history tours and lessons focused on the lake. The bus tours embark at 10 a.m., April 9, and 1 p.m., April 10, [...]
By Bruce Felps The intersection of Mockingbird Lane and Abrams Road serves as a major crossroads for the community, and probably each driver who’s traversed the crossway at about dusk can’t help but notice the sizeable congregation of birds, predominately grackles, that swarm to the area like extras in an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Area residents [...]
By Bruce Felps Events related to the White Rock Lake Centennial Celebration continue to ramp up as the months-long festivities build toward the June 26 crescendo. This weekend brings a two-day Family Fun Weekend made possible, in part, by For the Love of the Lake and the city’s Park and Recreation Department. The Family Fun [...]
By Bruce Felps Dallas Animal Services gets a bad rap, some justified, but the guys out in the field genuinely care. This story, just spotted over at Unfair Park, shows the above-and-beyond measures some DAS personnel take in extreme, unusual cases.
by Bruce Felps A community meeting convenes Tuesday evening about Oncor and its tree-trimming policies around power lines in Lakewood. It’s been a touchy subject for awhile now, and Oncor even tried instituting a pilot program in Lakewood to mitigate disagreements between electric-service customers, their trees, and Oncor tree-trimming contactors. Well, the parties involved conduct [...]
by Bruce Felps Just a few days ago, seven to be precise, we mentioned a coyote sighting in Hollywood-Santa Monica. A reader just now sent word via the modern miracle that is the e-mail that she and her husband spotted a pair of the large canines out for a jaunt yesterday morning.
by Bruce Felps A regular reader and regular nature girl yesterday dropped a word about a “big” coyote seen in the area. The sighting occurred late night before last in the 6800 of Vivian Avenue in Hollywood-Santa Monica.
This fox was the subject of a story published at Black White Red. Community Contribution The following contribution started as a letter to neighbors from three people concerned about local wildlife: Several of us have observed a mother fox feeding her three babies in the 6900 block of Cornelia Lane. She appears in the [...]
