Friday, January 25, 2013
Mud Creek Park
Today's photos:
The next park upstream along Mud Creek from McAllister Park is Mud Creek Park. Mud Creek Park is a 67 acre flood control retention basin and Edwards Aquifer recharge site with at least 1.4 miles of nature trails (pdf). This was the first time I have been to this park and I only walked a portion of the trail along the eastern most part of the loop trail.
The flora and fauna in this series of photos are too numerous to list all of them, but here are a few of the highlights: Whitethorn Acacia, Huisache, Live Oak, Ashe Juniper (a.k.a. Mountain Cedar), an Orange Sulphur butterfly, Spanish Dagger Yucca, Sotol, Twisted-leaf Yucca, a Black Vulture, Bluewood Condalia and Wafer Ash seeds.
There is one additional set of photos from this walk that will be featured in the upcoming Sunday Special Edition
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
The butterflies weren't anywhere near as numerous at Eisenhower Park yesterday as they had been at Pearsall Park a week ago on Monday, October 15. I had to be more observant to photograph them. There was, however, a variety, from the brilliant orange of the Gulf Fritillary to the well camouflaged Rawson's Metalmark. Orange Sulphurs, Common Mestras and others appeared along the trail:
