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Big Thicket Visitors Center Outside Kountze, TX
Entrance Sundew Trail
Walking Bridge over Creek on Kirby Trail
Parking & Entrance @ Big Sandy Trail
Turkey Creek Trail Entrance, OFINT6
Official Boundary Marker
Neches Bottom & Jack Gore Baygall Unit
Big Thicket Savannah
Pitcher Plant
Seen several times, probable wasp gall
Nymph on Flower
Some place to land at my light setup.
A Bug Magnet Weed
Sand or Water?
Aphid Nymphs
A gathering
Clown Weevil Mating during a Shower
8/21/2017 Eclipse(3 holes in a piece of paper)
When they were not fighting, they were feeding.
Displaying
Frog for Breakfast
Feeding Frenzy


A good hiding place


Lightening hit this one, OFINT2
Something is trying to hide at the bottom of the pool.
Something is in the Brush
Good guard critter for your water bottle.
Cricket Frog Hanging Out on a Foggy December day.
In the cool shade of the early morning, OFINT11


Maybe the same pair, about a week later at the same location.
A Beavers Work
Our Favorite Tools
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Common Violet Flower, BLVIFL1


Primrose Leaf Violet Plant, FLFN1

Primrose Leaf Violet (very small flower approx. 3/8

Partridgeberry Flowering Plant, FLFN2

Partridgeberry Flower, FLFN2A




Yellow Star Grass Flower, FLGR1A

Yellow Star Grass, FLGR1


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Blackberry



Clover

Pitcher Plant, PITCHPL1


Parsly Hawthorne, PARHAW1



Leaves and Berries of Large Dogwood Tree



tbd Fern, FERN2


Sensitive Fern, FERN1


TBD Fern, FERN3
TBD Fern, FERN4
Passion Flower (Passiflora incarnata)
Passion Flower Fruit

tbd Fungus, FUNG3
tbd, FUNG4

tbd, FUNG5

tbd, FUNG6

TBD Mushroom, MSHR1


TBD Mushroom, MSHR2

Unknown Mushroom, MSHR3


Amanita flavoconia, MSHR4
Ganoderma sp., MSHR8


Basidiomycota, FUNG2


Russula sp., MSHR5


tbd Mushroom, MSHR6

Cantharellus sp., MSHR7
tbd, MSHR9

tbd, MSHR10


Devils Urn, FUNG1
Extremely rare Albino Plant, probably persimmon.
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Cardinal Flower Plant, ORCH1

Cardinal Flower, ORCH1A

Wild Azalea Plant, WIAZPL1
Wild Azalea Flower, WIAZFL1

Bigroot Morning-Glory (Wild Potato Vine)

Common Violet Plant, BLVIPL1

A Few of the Larger Animals of the Big Thicket in East Texas
Otter on the hunt
Band of Brothers or Sisters
Beaver taking a Rest
Beaver back on the Move after resting
Squirrel
Raccoon, RACOON1
Striped Skunk on the Run
A Small Herd
This one saw me first, taken at about 100 ft. away
In the heat of the day about 100 F, OFINT31
Cottontail Rabbit, RABB1
Cottontail Rabbit
Armadillo
Armadillo
Unknown, Possible Norway Rat or Woodrat
Rufinesque's big-eared Bat(Corynorhinus rufinesquii)
Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat
Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat
Southern Flying Squirrel
Southern Flying Squirrel
Opossum playing possum
Eastern Mole
Eastern Mole
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Canine Skull, Possible Coyote
Rodent/Rat Skull
Racoon tracks
Deer tracks
Bobcat Track, No claw marks
Back Foot on Front Foot, Striped Skunk
Canine Track, Possible Coyote
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Skulls & Tracks Found While Hiking in the Big Thicket of East Texas
Flowering Plants & Mushrooms in the Big Thicket of East Texas
INTERESTING PHOTOS of the Big Thicket in East Texas
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Seminole Bat (Lasiurus seminolus) found dead a few days after a strong wind/lightening storm, April 2019