Today we are going back to visit our rattling friends. It was a while ago that if you will recall in this post, I showed you a hole where I found 2 rattlesnakes, the smaller one was sitting inside the hole, and the big one, outside hidden under a dried out bush.Since then, as I …
In today’s photo gallery, I show you a sequence of events which I witnessed and which involved 3 animals. There is no good guy, bad guy, and the like in this story. It is the cold, no nonsense, survival scheme of nature: to eat or be eaten. As you will see in the first pic, …
That’s right folks, today is Halloween, and though I disapprove of the door-to-door candy begging, I very much like the dark side of that holiday. I find all the ugly, weird, and frightening characters that represent this particular night very fascinating and amusing. And so, it is with great satisfaction that I have gathered some …
This week, we have one lizard, three butterflies, and three birds. Lizards are one of the easiest animal to take pictures of. If you move slowly they will let you get very close. It’s as if they don’t perceive you as a threat because they think you are too slow. On the other hand, once …
For this week’s post, I have only one bird. Yes, all the pics in the gallery today are just this one bird. It is the real roadrunner. There are 2 kinds of roadrunners, the greater roadrunner and the lesser roadrunner. The bird in this week’s gallery is the greater roadrunner.I can only presume that this …
I am not sure what people do when they view my posts. Do they look at the pictures first and then read the text, or, they read the text and go to the pictures to see what I am talking about? Then again, sometimes I get the feeling that people think I write too much… …
Many of our wildlife creatures today gave me a lot of trouble when it came to identification.I spent hours looking all over the web. Normally I try a Google image search. This time, for the first butterfly in this series, it suggested a search for “short-tailed blue” Unfortunately, this type of butterfly looks too different, …
As many among my friends know, I have been trying hard to take pictures of a rattlesnake. As you can see, once again, persistence paid off. A week ago, as I went off the trail on a whim, I spotted a hole in the slope of a little ridge. And, as I often do, I …
Today we have a couple of birds. The first one is a black-crowned Night-Heron, which, after reading about this bird, I realize I was very lucky to catch it. It is usually a nocturnal bird, and although one might see it at dusk, this was way too early. In fact I had never seen one …
Hello everybody,I hope the heat has not been getting you down too much. And the virus, and the fires, and what’s next??Oh well, so far so good, none of that stopped me from going out to my hiking grounds and take pictures.So without further ado, here is the next set. Our first picture today is …