Julia Weatherby

I’ll be volunteering at one of those stores! (and picking up some plants for myself) 🌾🌼🌱

#NPSOTAustin is having a meeting on Tuesday, March 18 at 7pm. Mountain Cedars: Junipers That Benefit Texas Karst Country with Elizabeth McGreevy, author of Wanted! Mountain Cedars Dead and Alive. You can attend in person or online via Zoom. #NPSOT #nativeplants www.npsot.org/chapters/aus...

I’m learning so much about Texas plants and pollinators at the #NPSOT Spring Symposium. I could listen to Wizzie Brown talk about cool bugs all day. Good thing she has a podcast: Bugs by the Yard! #2025npsotspring

In a weekly German conversation group, our theme has been the election results in Germany. One participant had little to say other than they don’t follow politics in Germany or the USA. Others encouraged her to let this be the beginning of her following what’s happening politically. It’s important.

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Fund our amazing Texas public schools!!! Support our school children. Vouchers would harm the future for our students and schools. I’m joining other Texas public school families as part of the Texas PTA to advocate for public schools today at the Texas state capitol. #TXPTARally25

Yesterday I watched the birds in my backyard through a slightly opened window. Merlin app helped me spot two Yellow rumped warblers. Their behinds were definitely bright yellow! Those birds will be breeding in Canada!! 🇨🇦 Migrating species are so mind-blowing with their travels.

You could read the article and you would have the answer.

I went for a quick walk around the block between meetings. It’s cloudy and mild weather today and the birds are out. The Merlin phone app helped me spot Cedar Waxwings up in a tree! They are easy to see with no leaves to hide in. They like to hang out together in a group.

I spotted a bird standing in my future pocket prairie and IDed it via the Merlin app, step by step as it was not singing. Merlin congratulated ME for finding a Dark-eyed Junco. But did I? No. It was my cat, going crazy at the window, who truly found that guy. Get the app and start finding birds! 🐦‍⬛

Native Landscape Certification Program - Native Plant Society of Texas See the schedule for the upcoming classes across the state for the Native Landscape Certification Program (NLCP).

The Native Plant Society of Texas has opened registration for the Native Landscape Certification Program! Whether you are a landscaping professional or native plant enthusiast, there is a class for you. I've taken the Level 1 class in Austin and highly recommend it! www.npsot.org/our-work/cla...

Chilling.

Screenshot of merlin app listing House Finch, Cedar Waxwing, Blue Jay and Red-bellied Woodpecker as identified through their calls.

I started using the @cornellbirds.bsky.social Merlin app to identify bird calls. Today I got some binoculars out and SAW cedar waxwings from my front yard! Also heard, then saw the Red “bellied” woodpecker 🐦‍⬛ and merlin told me the id when it finally sang! This app is turning me into a birder.

Insanely cute!

Butterflies, caterpillar and a bee enjoying Texas native plants in my yard.

I just certified my yard as a @nationalwildlife.bsky.social wildlife habitat! I’ve worked so hard adding lots of native Texas plants. I’ve seen Monarchs, salt marsh moths, caterpillars, a raccoon, and foxes. Birds have enjoyed the water and American Beautyberry. PS - NWF is an amazing organization!

Austin Chapter Meeting - Backyard Birds with Natasia Moore - Native Plant Society of Texas In this presentation, Natasia will talk about the importance of birds, how they’re affected by urbanization, and ways in which we as residents can provide habitat for birds in our […]

Native Plant Society of Texas Austin Chapter is having a meeting on Tuesday, January 28 at 7pm. "Backyard Birds with Natasia Moore". Natasia is a Urban Wildlife Biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife. You can attend in person or online via Zoom. #NPSOT #NPSOTAustin www.npsot.org/event/austin...

You have one of the most important jobs ever. Feeding hungry learning children! I don't understand why children aren't our priority when it comes to funding. I worry so much about rural communities. You're losing hospitals and now Abbott says vouchers? Let's not lose our public rural schools!

...and where does this money come from? I'm not paying for someone else's PRIVATE, often religious education! Taxpayers pay for things that benefit the community, like public education! Are our public schools so overfunded we feel like gifting some money?

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It’s Frostweed Day in Austin!! When the weather is well below freezing, the sap explodes into ice sculptures. This Texas native plant is important for Monarch’s fall migration to Mexico as that is when it blooms. Frostweed likes a little sun and a little shade. #NPSOT #NPSOTAustin #nativeplants

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