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| One of Becca's favorite shade Yuccas |
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| How's this for camouflage? |
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| You can see why they're called "Horned Lizards" |
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| Dusty from a desert lie down |
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| Soaptree Yucca and Tortugas Mountain |
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| Why? |
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| Papa Quail and babies at the waterhole |
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| Papa and chicklets |
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| Obviously Papa's "boys" could swim |
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| Female Pyrrhuloxia (Northern Cardinal) |
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| Feeding her baby in our backyard |
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| Peekaboo |
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| The male Pyrrhuloxia is bright red |
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| A passel of quailettes |
6 comments:
The images of the female Pyrrhuloxia and offspring were taken through the back patio doors in low-light conditions, so they're pretty awful. Hoping I can get some daylight shots of them in the near future.
It's really neat to see so many critters in one post, Packrat.
I agree with Dr. K: Great critter-filled post (even if you're not completely satisfied with all the images)!
I've only ever seen one Horned Lizard during my peregrinations through the Southwest (a really tiny one in Canyonlands National Park), so I definitely appreciated your image.
I know what you're talking about related to the bathing quailettes. Our organization picks up road-killed deer around our preserve so that we can collect biological information about the deer herd. We also get more unusual "deer death" calls, too. Last week, a nearby resident called to say that there was a dead deer in her back yard. When we investigated, we found a fawn that had drowned in a koi pond--one of our more unusual, but not necessarily most unusual--deer deaths.
Thank you, Scott. It would be truly heartbreaking to find a drowned fawn like that. It's sad when these kinds of tragedies happen to helpless critters.
Just catching up on your blog- love the quail chicks!
I'm glad they didn't drown in the dog bowl!
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