Texas Backyard Wildlife
Welcome to Texas Backyard Wildlife!
We share our Austin home with dozens of other animals - foxes, raccoons, deer, rock squirrels, snakes, owls, skunks, hummingbirds... Some live here with us, under the deck or high up in a tree, some are just passing through. Every day we see something new, a new butterfly, a new bird, a new behavior.
We have recorded thousands of hours of video and taken hundreds of photos of the creatures who live in our yard with us here in Austin – eating, playing, taking care of babies, hunting, and just hanging out. Texas Backyard Wildlife is our way of sharing this with our neighbors here in Austin and around the world.
Dan Ballard & Jane Hunter
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The fastest garter snake in the world vs the second-fastest chirping frog
Cardinals reject a good meal: "Anyone want this bug?"
Wild fox zoomies: Best video ever of young gray foxes at play
A fox family in the tree stump den - May 2025: Two mamas, 6 kits, and one father
A rare sighting of an armadillo family: Mama and her 4 identical little ones
How do hawks nail their high-speed landings? Watch in slow motion
Our Texas wildlife in a snowstorm
Gray fox family: Part 7 - Broken Ear, a dove dinner, and a stubborn raccoon
Do gray foxes use yipping sounds to help them explore dark spaces?
A daddy longlegs emerges from its molted exoskeleton
Lunchtime for a young black vulture: We can’t BELIEVE he ate the whole thing
Gray fox family: Part 6 - Dolly and Frances at play (again)
Gray fox family: Part 5 - Dolly and Frances at play
Gray fox family: Part 4 - Lunch, a visit from Broken Ear, and more playtime
Gray fox family: Part 3 - Dolly gets her ears chewed (again)
Raccoons everywhere! A swarm of youngsters
Gray fox family: Part 2 - Frances explores her new home
Pale Fox supervising Chris to make sure he gets to and from the water bowl without straying
Gray fox family: Part 1 - Dolly & Frances move into the den
Three gray fox kits on a tall stump - 12Jun24
Texas spiny lizards: The best close-up video you will ever see
Mama raccoon & a baby in the magic tree den - 30Jul22
Mating Texas spiny lizards
Dolly & 3 kits 02Jun24
This is how raccoons deal with mosquitos
An American opossum: Up close and very, VERY personal
Foxes on the rocks: A mama fox and 3 energetic kits
Nesting Bewick's wrens: Part One - Nest construction
Lion Tail: The world's sweetest raccoon | Texas Backyard Wildlife
The Transformer: A great horned owl does a super-stretch | Texas Backyard Wildlife