A Marine Blue Butterfly (Leptotes marina) is interrupted from sucking salts & minerals by a biting ant. It immediately flew. All of the Marine Blues have been really stunted and small, this year. This one was barely 16 mm…photographed June 15, 2011
Cheech’ll Eat Ya’
Cheech’ll Eat Ya’ Cheech, the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) was on the move, in that familiar, “I killed a bird and it is right around here” mode. This drama has been played in front of us numerous times, but it always amazes. It only took fifteen minutes to finish the Mourning Dove. Note how…
‘Monsoon’ Garden
The main Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden This clip depicts the profound reaction to the relative increase in humidity & the frequent storms brought by monsoon. We hope the monsoon produces moisture this year…
Movin’ Mantid
Short clip of how a mantid moves with the gusts of wind, as if to be just a tumbling twig…
Sunrise Thrasher
A young Curve-billed Thrasher Toxistoma curvirostre, posing on the Garambullo at sunrise Check out our location sighting list. CLICK HERE for more photos and information
Slither II
The colors were fantastic on the mountains, before the inky blackness gobbled the sun. With no moon, it got very dark, very quickly. I had been out photographing one of our snakes , the javelinas and the birds. The mountains were showing the last colors, it was excellent… I thought that it was time to…
Hot Summer Sipping…
I prefer more Root Beer, ME prefers more ‘float’. RB & Ice Cream homemade…next RB Float Day is THURSDAY, June 9th!!!
Seconds Before the Kill…
“Seconds Before the Kill…” Crotalus Atrox – Western Diamond-backed (Diamondback) Rattlesnake Full frame, no crop…May 31, 2011 Video of the Mourning Dove consumption to follow…
