Birds, Beasts and Flowers!

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers is a low profit native landscaping business in Austin, TX. When I'm not gardening I'm looking at nature. Remember if you're not restoring the Earth, you're destroying the Earth... and trust me, you're destroying the Earth.

Yellow-billed Cuckoo on a fence in a garden.
A common sunflower in a field of coreopsis rising above the other wildflowers.
Photo of a Black-throated sparrow wet after taking a bath.
Painted bunting singing on a tree branch.
Photo of a small tree - the Texas Persimmon - looking lush.
Video of a Caracara being chased off by a Mockingbird.
Caracara in the top of a tree looking left.
Painted bunting singing on a barbwire fence.
Purple Martin on a t-post looking for his fledgling son.
Fledgling Dickcissel checking out his new world.
Video of a Purple Martin fledgling tumbling out of a bush after hanging on upside down like a bat for a time.
Five second video of a Yellow-billed cuckoo eating a grasshopper while perched on a fence.
Dickcissel - a sparrow like bird - on a fence with a red barn in the background. A butterfly is also in the background.
Purple martin - a type of swallow - a shiny purple bird on a fence with a mouth full of bugs.
Spotted whiptail lizard doing some sort of weird-ass dance in the sand.
Two Purple Martins - a type of swallow - one male and one female on the balcony of a Martin box. The male has a shitload of termites in his mouth that he as brought home for the fledglings.
A Dickcissel - a sparrow like bird with a yellow breast and a black bib - sings from the top of a Mesquite tree.
Purple Martin - a kind of swallow all shiny and purple - on a strand of barbed wire or "barbwire" or even "bobwire".
A fence post in the rain with a House sparrow that flies off. A new sparrow immediately appears and then flies off leaving no sparrows in the rain.
Lark bunting on a barbwire fence. Looking left, looking sharp.
Video of a baby jackrabbit attempting to leap, but hw only makes it a centimeter or so.
Photo of the long slender yellow blossoms of a Mesquite tree.
Feral hog - hairy creature - sitting in the mud of a stock tank luxuriating and farting.
Video of a Black tailed Jackrabbit snuffling its nose.
Video of juvenile Barn swallow with bug stuck on nose.
Juvenile Barn swallow with bug stuck on nose.
Coachwhip snake drinking at a cast iron skillet that has been made into a bird bath.
Black-crested Titmouse drying on some rocks after her bath.
Carolina wren on a branch looking sharp.
Purple Martin baby in a Martin house looking grumpy.
Male and female Orchard oriole on a sunflower in the late afternoon sun.
Vermillion Flycatcher - red and black bird with a black zorro mask - on a piece of rebar.
Blue grosbeak on barbwire.
Barn swallow - a glistering black/purple bird with an orangish face - perched on a strand of barbwire.
Yellowish bird singing at the top of a tree.
Jack Rabbit in a field of flowers.
Painted bunting on a fence. Looking somewhat garish.
Female Painted Bunting - all shades of green - at the top of a Live Oak Tree.
Turkey Vulture in the golden hour looking sharp.
Orchard Oriole - a yellow bird - in a Mesquite tree surrounded by wildflowers.
Little green bee scratches its back.
Snake stares into the camera for 25 seconds and then gives up.
Baby Bewick Wren doing it's thing on a branch.
Big black cow drinking water.
Black cat in a cardboard peach box.
Female Vermillion Flycatcher - type of bird - on barbwire fence strand. Looking sharp.
House finch chowing down velvetweed at the bird restaurant.
Dickcissel - a handsome bird with a stupid name - singing on a fence post.
A black-tailed jackrabbit taking a dust bath.