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(sometimes
known as the "rick, don't touch that!" page.)
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--LET'S SEE WHAT THAT RASCAL RICKUBIS IS UP
TO!
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DOES THE CAPTION SAY "IT'S
LIVE"? IF IT DOESN'T, IT ISN'T.
(Actually, it hasn't been "live' in a long, long time.)
Recent Updates of other pages:
Page or file name
Date of update
Description of update
Gar page
(garfish)
12/02/2024
New material from this year. Lots of images, and
some edited videos.
Gar
page (garfish)
12/01/2024
NEW PAGE!! With some much material, the gar fish have a separate page,
pulled from material I've posted on other pages.
Kites page
10/16/2024
NEW PAGE!! Inspired to create
this page because Kites aren't exactly like other
raptors...so they got their own page.
Water Insect page
10/11/2024
NEW PAGE!! Inspired to create this page
due to research I've just done. First time uploads of OLD
pictures, and new materials.
Just
Rick page
09/26/2024 Added
new videos and photos from 2003, driving an ARGO ATV to crush
vegetation at Brazos Bend State Park
Alligator Behavior
Walking etc. page 10 09/05/2024
New Page!
Added new posts with imagery from 2023
Rick's General Oddities
08/27/2024 Added
new video and pictures from August 11 and 20 2024 (long camera
sticks).
Internal Martial Arts page
07/30/2024 Added
new video and pictures from July 2024 (a few days before Beryl).
Piper the Pup's Page
06/19/2024 Added
some pictures and a couple videos from June 2024.
Ichnology page 4
05/04/2024 Added
more material from summer 2023. Cicada killer drama.
Osprey page
03/21/2024 Added a
lot of pictures and a video clip of an Osprey observed feeding at
Fiorenza park 05/29/2023.
Rick's General Oddities
12/13/2023 Added some
pictures and a video of me tossing boomerangs at Scobee Field.
Rick's
3D model Page 5 (gator den; ver. 2) 07/04/22
I
once
used Solidworks at work. Now Solidworks has access I can use at
home, so I'm modeling an alligator den. My attempts are here.
Rick's 3D model Page 1 (gator den) 05/27/22 I once used Solidworks at work.
Now Solidworks has access I can use at home, so I'm modeling an
alligator den. My attempts are here.
2008 2010
Videos of folding bicycles from 2008 & 2010
Update
12/07/2024 - 11/24/2024,
11/29/2024, 12/01/2024 "Where have all the alligators
gone?",
has been a
common
question from
visitors at
Brazos Bend
State Park
over the last
few
years. We've
experienced
drought
conditions
through 2
summers, and
then we
finally got
good rain
after
hurricane
Beryl in
August, 2024.
The alligators
moved to areas
within the
park that hid
them from our
view. Even
after our
"good" rain,
water levels
in the park
have not gone
back to
normal. But
the plant life
sure came
back! The
lakes become
covered with
floating
plants-mostly
Water
Hyacinth; and
the Giant
Cutgrass has
grown up
around the
shorelines.
The alligators
(and all the
other
wildlife) are
now adjusting
to the
high-density
vegetation,
and fewer good
clear banks
for basking.
I've noticed
cleared areas
starting to
form in spots
that the
alligators
favor. The
tall cutgrass
is still
around them,
so there are
narrow
"viewing
windows" in
the growth
where-if you
look
carefully-you
might see an
alligator
getting some
sun.
11/24/2024
I'd heard
alligator
"croaks" while
I was standing
near pier #7.
I found these
two alligators
soon after.
Alligator
basking spots
became harder
to find after
the rain in
August.
Preferred
basking spots
are open to
sunshine, and
have a gradual
slope for easy
movement out
of the
water.
At this time
of year, the
South sides of
these islands
get sun for
most of
the
day. So
this was a
good basking
spot. One
of the
alligators
seemed
uncomfortable
with sharing,
so it was
making the
croaking
sound. That's
what I'd
heard. Park
visitors also
heard
it, so I only
filmed a
little as I
explained the
situation for
them. I did
capture some
very short
video, shown
here.
We
were on the
trail, about
50 yards away
from the
gators on the
island, so
their sounds
didn't carry
well. The
second gator
was easier to
see when it
moved. It
demonstrated
why they
prefer a
gradual slope
as it eased
out of the
water. Listen
carefully and
you'll hear
the other
gator croak
behind my
voice. (sorry
about
that).
Another
large group of
visitors
appeared so I
gave up on
trying to film
any more.
Another gator
appeared and
changed
everything
around by
trying to
claim the same
spot.
Unfortunately
no photos of
that. But I
got to watch
along with a
large group of
park visitors.
11/29/2024
and
12/01/2024
I found one of
these
"alligator
windows" by
walking about
70 yards East
of Pier #7 and
looking across
at the island.
Two alligators
were there. I
didn't stay
for
long, but took
a few pictures
just to show
the alligators
in the
window.
A week
later, there
were two
alligators
using the same
spot! I'm
pretty sure
that at least
a few
alligators
have
dens dug under
the islands,
and that the
largest
alligators
probably sit
through winter
there. If
conditions
favor any
basking, the
gators just
come up for a
while. If you
compare the
wider view
between 11/29
and 12/01, you
may notice how
much the water
has cleared.
The first
picture shows
the mats of
Water Hyacinth
that are
covering parts
of the lake.
They are
dead or dying,
but still
float. Since
they float,
changes in
wind direction
can blow the
mats from one
side of the
lake to the
other. The
wind had blown
the mats away
during the
week.
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Certain
natural
observations that first appeared on this page have been moved
to my other pages. Go back to my home page, Welcome to Rickubis.com for links to those pages.
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03/07/2021 Sometimes, one of the park gators
seems to say:
Just pay
attention to the sign, okay?
04/08/2012---Easter Sunday at BBSP
gets very busy. This year, I had time to put a camera on my bicycle
handlebars and do a quick ride on the Elm Lake Trail before it got
busy. I was
experimenting with doing "virtual" trail tours of the park.
I'm not sure if this works or not, but here is an edited
version of the footage I filmed. A surprise unique to the park
happens near
the 6:47 mark. Links to the video are here (files are about 200mb):
Elm
Lake trail mp4 .
11/06/2013---Piper
the
Pup 
now has
her own page. For Piper-related stuff, you can go here,
but I don't update often.
Pages that show where mom gator has left babies, possibly so
she can forage: 03/06/2016 03/14/2016 12/05/2021
and two times when a mom left after a bellow bout:
02/16/2020 08/28/2022
I have created all the content on *my* pages. That means that I have
either shot the video, taken the pictures, or performed any
demonstrations. That also means that I've edited every image on
these pages, that is, I've cropped,
enhanced, resized, labeled, and otherwise optimized *every*
single image on my pages. That means that I've also edited,
enhanced, extracted images from, recoded (in two or three or four
formats) every *video clip* on these
pages. I've also, for better or worse, composed all the text and
layout on these pages. I've had to learn to use the various
utilities for doing all of this, as well as finding and legally
getting copies of them in the first place. I'm also
responsible for all the hardware used to do this. I also pay
for the server space used for all of this information as well as for
my access to it. It costs a lot of money, time, and effort to put
these pages out here...hopefully to
entertain and to inform. And this is *after* I spend time at my "day
job". People are welcome to the information here, but if it's
used elsewhere, then I deserve credit for my effort. If it is used
for someone else's profit, then I
deserve part of that profit. *That* is the purpose of my notices
about copyright.
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PRODUCTIONS AND CLIPS. IT HAS BEEN LICENSED FOR MY USE, ROYALTY-FREE.
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DO NOT EVER APPROACH ALLIGATORS. THEY CAN BE EXTREMELY
DANGEROUS IF THEY FEEL THREATENED, JUST LIKE ALMOST ANY ANIMAL.
DON'T DISTURB ALLIGATORS AT THIS PARK, OR ANYWHERE ELSE.
For the story of my hip
replacements, click here. I've come to think that these pages are
less about me than what I'm writing about, but I've been talking to lots
of old folks (like me) that
wonder how that surgery works.. So, this page shows my experiences with
it.
.Click here for the RICKUBISCAM GALLERY! ----a
chronicle of past rickubiscam images (16 pages starting
from the year 2000!!)
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GLASSES
This gif was made in 2011 (I had more
hair!)
This gif was made in 2011 (I had
more hair!)
This page was born 9/16/1999. Rickubis
designed it. (such as it is.)
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