Coyote Crossing

Rock squirrel, rock art

At Grapevine Canyon, Newberry Mountains, … (continues)

Continental Divide

Borderlands, Continental Divide produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology from iLCP on Vimeo.

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The International League of Conservation Photographers sent a team of world-renowned photographers, with

Spat

By “bbence,” via Arizona Game and Fish. They have … (continues)

Large-horned sheep

I was using a piece of this photo in something else and thought “hey, that’s not bad for a zoo animal shot. I should put it up on the blog.” So here you go.

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It’s International Vulture Awareness Day

In celebration of International Vulture Awareness Day, here are some photos I’ve taken of the three vulture species native to the 48 contiguous United States.

A turkey vulture, Cathartes aura, flying past me four years ago on a narrow promontory

How I feel after the last week of coding

I was gonna photoshop a keyboard and trackball under his fingers there, but I’m too … (continues)

Metaunderfoot

Erica caught the above photo of me taking this photo of a snake. If the snake has a photo of Erica taking this shot, then, um, it’ll bite its tail or… … (continues)

At the Huntington Botanic Garden today

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Eagle over Morning Star Mine Road

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Possum in West Hollywood

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Noshing Pronghorn

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Rio Puerco Raven

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Rock wren

At Puerco Ruins, Petrified Forest National Park, November … (continues)

Pronghorn

at Petrified Forest National … (continues)

Letters from the desert: Crotalus scutulatus

Were one to insist on a strictly rational, actuarial accounting of the risks involved, one would of necessity admit that the little meeting The Raven and I had Saturday with the most dangerous snake in North America was not the riskiest thing

Letters from the desert: Tortious Conduct

Thunderstorms rolled in this morning, one or more from each of the four directions, and the smell of wet creosote was thick on the wind.

I decided to go get my mail. This involves about a forty=mile round trip. My mail tends to pile up in the box