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| Trudging along the western foothills |
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| A Roadrunner hunting for insects |
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| Out of the foothills to the lower desert |
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| Into a wide arroyo |
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| Soaptree Yuccas flourishing in the arroyo bottom |
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| Rodent footprints (like a bicycle tire track) |
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| Bird tracks |
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| Deer tracks |
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| A female Pyrrhuloxia (desert Cardinal) |
3 comments:
Beautiful photo of the roadrunner.
I never tire of seeing Roadrunners, Packrat, probably because they're so iconic of the West, because I just don't see them all that often, and because they're so "cool." The last one I saw was (incongruously, in my opinion) perched on rocky rubble revetment that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had placed alongside the San Luis Rey River in northern San Diego County, California. You got a good image; thanks for sharing.
I liked the images of the variety of tracks in the sandy arroyo, too. A really good post.
Thanks, Dr. K.
Scott: Thank you. Have you ever heard the trilling/clucking sound the Roadrunner makes? It's such a peculiar sound that everytime I hear one making it in our backyard it takes me a moment to remember which critter is responsible.
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