Showing posts with label Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center and Botanical Gardens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center and Botanical Gardens. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

CDRI presents Urban Gardening Seminar on September 25

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CDRI presents Lecturer  Dr. Ken Mix on September 25, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. at Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Lawrence Hall, Room 300....
Monday, September 15, 2014

Hummingbird Happiness at CDRI

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Master Naturalist Jack Dunaway in Waxahachie snapped this pic of hummingbirds at CDRI and had this to say: " Let me tell you wha...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Hummingbird banding at Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center

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From our friends at Fort Davis' Chihuahuan Desert Nature Ce nter: "These little girls were very interested in a hummingbird band...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Yesterday in the cactus greenhouse

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Yesterday, CDRI's cactus greenhouse was abloom with Escobaria hesteri!  Don't miss the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center and Botanic...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Great Horned Owl

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From our friends at the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center in Fort Davis: Normally expected to be active at night, this great horned owl (Bu...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Fort Davis Hummingbird Festival...registration closes August 15!

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Photos from banding demonstrations by Kelly Bryan Thursday, August 21st: 1:00pm - 6:00pm       Registration: Fort Davis Chamb...
Thursday, August 07, 2014

Hummers!

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Click on the images to get a closer view! Now's a GREAT time to watch hummingbirds who vie for space at feeders...where ...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Juniper Hairstreak

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One of the Desert Rat campers at Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center took this photo, and their Education Coordinator wrote us with this: ...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Blooming cacti!

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Coryphantha macromeris blooming at the Cactus Greenhouse at Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center in Fort Davis!
Monday, July 21, 2014

Beetles on a Buffalo Gourd

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From our friends at Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center in Fort Davis!
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Black Hawk

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For all you birders, from our friends at the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center : "One of our remote wildlife cameras caught what appe...
Thursday, July 03, 2014

What's blooming in our desert?

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A native plant in our desert, Wislizenus senna, in bloom at CDRI A great place to see the desert in bloom is Fort Davis' Chihuahuan ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Clayton's Overlook Trail at Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center

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One of our favorite trails at the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center offers 360 degree views of the Davis Mountains, with full interpretive ...
Monday, June 09, 2014

Our Impossibly Blue Skies

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Last Friday, we captured the clear blue skies over Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center in Fort Davis. 
Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Pollinator Garden at CDRI

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Plan to visit Fort Davis' Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center and their Pollinator Garden this season...lots of blooms there this wee...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Keeping the pollinators busy!

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Fort Davis' Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center 's botanical garden plants are sporting blossoms and the pollinators are busy!  Plan a...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Adventures in the Texas Mountains presentation tonight!

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Join us at 7pm in Lawrence Hall on the campus of Sul Ross State University in Alpine for a presentation by our Executive Director on ...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Watching cacti bloom at Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center

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Echinocactus parryi at 10 am this Monday We are having fun this spring watching what happens in the Cactus Greenhouse at Fort Davis'...
Thursday, May 01, 2014

Cactus Candies from British Pathe (1930)

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This time of year, our Chihuahuan Desert is treated to the glory of blooming cactus (and many of them can be seen at Fort Davis' Chihu...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Red Flag Warnings and Mountain Biking Festival!

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Photo by Luke Stewart Billingsley Our friends at Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center is flying a new red flag at their entrance on Hwy 11...