Utopia Nature - Exploring the Sabinal River Valley Flora and Fauna - Utopia, Texas

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Web Name: Utopia Nature - Exploring the Sabinal River Valley Flora and Fauna - Utopia, Texas

WebSite: http://www.utopianature.com

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Utopia, of course, is in TEXAS! Roughly 75 milesWest of San Antonio, so south central Texas. It liesin the Sabinal River Valley, near the southern edge of the Edwards Plateau on the Balcones Escarpment. It was named for its climate in the late-1800's. Elevation is 1350' and the population in town and surrounding area is about 200 and change, except on weekends in summer.To navigate this site, there is a link bar atthe top of most of the pages and link boxesat the bottom of the pages ... scrolling overthe subjects in the nav bar above will provide adropdown box giving you the selections.Click one and you're off!bookmark it now before you lose it. :-)We hope you enjoy this window into Utopia's nature.Here we have collection of pages about the incrediblenatural history of the Utopia area. The pagesfeature the local fauna ... birds, butterflies, dragonflies, critters, bugs and stuff, and more. It will start small, but we hope grow with time and can give you a good idea of the fauna present. The idea being to educate others, share, and document the incrediblediversity of wildlife in this area.Most of the photos are simple snapshots and not high quality photos, but are generally enough for you to make an identification of a bird,butterfly, dragonfly, or other animal you may have seen.Probably 95% of the butterflies you see locally could beidentified from the butterfly photo pages, and most of the common local dragonflies and damselflies areon our dragonfly or damselfly photo pages. A largepercentage of the local birds species are on the birdphotos pages now too.In now over 16 years bumbling around the area I have seen over 350 species of birds, 140 species of butterflies, and 75 or so species of dragonflies and damselflies.It is world class bio-diversity for such a small area.Most of the action is at the Bird News page, whichshould really be called Nature News, sincebutterfly and dragonfly (Odes) news is there too.Current updates of local bird and other sightings are there,generally updated weekly on Friday evening. Directions to some local spots to see all of this interesting stuff, as well as somelocal business information is also shared on various pages.We hope you enjoy the pages and view into Utopia nature.Many birders come to the area to see the Edwards Plateau s two endemic threatened bird species, the Golden-cheeked Warbler and Black-capped Vireo. Huge draws for their small size. Besidesthe roles they play in the ecosystem, they are very important economically to the area, locally to the tune of many tens of thousands annually. If you can t guess which is which inthe photos below, birding might not be your thing. ;) Texas Coral Snake ~ Do not handle!Thanks to Nancy Walling for her photo.Red next to black is a friend of Jack,Red next to yellow will kill a poor fellow.Black-chinned Hummingbirdand Female Roseate Skimmer discussing perch arrangementsZebra LongwingThese staged a major invasion into Utopia fall '04, but I couldn't get the yellow stripes on the wings toshow well on film.

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Natural history, flora, fauna of the Sabinal River Valley, Utopia, the Hill Country of Texas

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