Kilfeather Photographs

Well the summer has gone by fast and the heat has finally broken. I spent the summer watching and listening to

While most of the Texas Hill Country got lots of rain, we did not. So far for the month of July we have had just about 1" (one inch). But we did get some great lightning! But we are not complaining! We did get some to keep the grass green.

I am going back in time a few weeks to an evening while sitting on the porch Mexican free tail bats start flying up to the screen eating bugs. I am watching, thinking this is really cool. Then one bat hits the screen in front of me where there is a hole that I have been meaning to repair. Yes, it was just big enough for her to fall through! Then splat, yes splat was the sound she made when she hit the deck. She laid there for a minute looking at me... me looking at her and my dash to close the door because I'm not sharing the cabin with a bat. Like them, don't want to live with them. So, Stella Luna, I call her ( my nieces loved this story about a bat named Stella Luna, when they were young and we would  read it at bedtime every time I was there) starts to fly around looking for a way out. I opened the door and one of her buddies flies in. So now I have 2 bats that want to move in. I get a flat cardboard box and like a shield hold it up and herd them to the door. They finally...

This past week we have had a little rain. half an inch in the rain guage. It seems to just split and go around us. We did have a good spring for wildflower's and most of our bird species went two nesting rounds.

Blogging is new to me so be patient with me. Hopefully this will be like a journal of life out here in the Texas Hill Country on a private Nature Preserve where I have been photographing the wildlife for over 6 years now. I moved out here in March of this year and each day living down in the little cabin in what we call the first canyon has been an adventure! My first week was just getting the wildlife out from around the cabin and setting boundaries on where I live and where they can hang out. So after the Rat snake was not allowed to hang out over the front door to wait on the Eastern Phoebe's little ones to hatch, life has slowed down a little. The Phoebe's went on to have 2 layings, and fledging 8 new residents.