Utopia, of course, is in TEXAS!
It lies in the Sabinal River Valley, near the
southern edge of the Edwards Plateau and the
Balcones Escarpment. It was named for its
climate in the late-1800's. Elevation is 1350'
and the population in town is about 200 and change,
and about this number again live in the few miles
in the surrounding area.
To navigate this site, there is a link bar at
the top of most of the pages and link boxes
at the bottom of the pages ... scrolling over
the subjects in the link bar will provide a
dropdown box giving you the selections.
Click one and you're off!
Here will reside a series of pages about the
natural history of the Utopia area.
The pages will feature the local fauna ...
birds, butterflies, dragonflies, "critters, bugs
and stuff," and more, most are small, but will
grow with time and hope to give you an idea
and representation of the fauna present.
The idea being to educate others, share,
and document the incredible diversity
of wildlife in this area.
They are primarily simple "snapshots"
and not high quality photos, but are generally
enough for you to make an identification
of something you may have seen.
Probably 95%+ of the butterflies you see
could be identified from the butterfly
photo pages, and maybe half (the common half)
of the dragonflies (but not damselflies)
are on our "Odes" pages and many of the
local birds are on the various bird photo pages.
Painted Bunting are common late April to early August
The action is at the "Bird News" page, which
now should be called "Nature News," since
butterfly and dragonfly (Odes) news is
all there togther. Current updates of local
bird, beast or bug sightings can be found there.
I update it every week or two with what I've been
seeing locally, if you want to know what is happening,
or figure out when to visit for what you want to see.
There are almost 8 years of nature notes here now in
the bird news archive pages.
Directions to some local spots to see all
of this interesting stuff, as well as some
local business information is also shared on
other pages like birding sites, or site guide page.
Over time, our site will grow so please
bookmark it now before you lose it. :-)
We hope you enjoy this window into Utopia's nature.
And if you come out and visit, we hope you
have a good time, just remember to go home!
For current weather conditions,
scroll towards the bottom of this page ...
if you pass the turkey, you've gone too far, turkey.
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