Jennifer Bristol – 2024 Portions of the history contained in this article appear in Jennifer Bristol’s up-coming book, Wild Women for Good: Stories of Conservation in the Lone Star State with Texas A&M University Press and Texas Women’s University. No portions of…
High Island is known world wide as a birding paradise during the spring migration. While the live oaks and dense woods of the slightly elevated island fill with birds in the spring, the beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula fill with…
On November 21, the City Council of Austin unanimously passed the “Bird-Friendly Building Design” resolution. This resolution directs the City Manager and staff to “return to Council with updates regarding the City’s implementation efforts of Lights Out Austin, a…
While writing Cemetery Birding: An Unexpected Guide to Discovering Birds in Texas, I stumbled across many famous and infamous Texans. Their individual stories are part of the collective of each community they resided in and the state as a whole.…
I drafted the outline for Cemetery Birding in the fall of 2019. At the time I was working on another book project with my mom, Valarie Bristol, and was waiting for Parking Lot Birding to be released in April of…
The fall migration starts in August for the birds with waves of Purple Martins, swallows, and song birds passing through. September we see an influx of hummingbirds; both the Ruby-throated and Black-chinned pass through Central Texas on their way to…
I hit my Covid- 19 live and work-at-home breaking point at the beginning of September. The swimming pools were closed, the days were miserably hot, and all the normal rituals and routines of the end of the summer seemed swept…
One step, two step, three step- into the clouds we go. The draw of the long, breathtakingly beautiful hike along the Garden Wall, is a calling I feel year after year. I cannot heed the call every summer, but I…
Sociology in a Sauna On occasion I make it to the gym to swim or work out if the weather is nasty, but I prefer to exercise outside. Last week I ventured to the Gold’s Gym at prime-time after work…
It gives me a thrill to look at the photos from the wildlife camera we have set up just outside the fence behind out house. I love seeing the types of wildlife we share this small space with, what time…