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Emerging
An American Pika emerges from its talus home as it waits for the remaining snow to melt and the summer haying season to begin.
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Wren Friends
A couple of Cactus Wrens find their light on top of a rock as the sun rises over the Mojave Desert.
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Armadillo
Getting to see an armadillo was one of many highlights of my trip to Patagonia with @danieldietrichphoto. These guys are so shy and hard to photograph, but we stayed very still until it emerged from its burrow and scurried (safely) across the road. This is either a Pichi or a Big Hairy Armadillo, but I…
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Goofball
A Great-Horned Owl chick in a convenient perch. Not yet fledged in this photo, the owlet explored the area around the nest on foot. The chick and its sibling have now successfully fledged, the second year in a row I got to watch their parents raise a new family.
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Dinner and a View
I’ve long believed that restaurants with the best views have the worst food. This American Pika begs to differ. (Pikas maximize their energy intake by redigesting their own feces, so it’s likely their culinary opinions shouldn’t be taken too seriously.)
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Top of the Tufa
A Violet-Green Swallow pauses briefly on a tufa stack before resuming dive-bombing Alkali Flies.
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Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel
At first I thought this was some sort of chipmunk, but the plain face marks it as a Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel. (There were also chipmunks by the lake, but they were much more shy.)
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Peekaboo
A Great-Horned Owl chick peeks out from behind a eucalyptus tree. While these trees are highly invasive, the owls don’t mind one bit, and often prefer them as nesting habitat in California.
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Cactus Wren Portrait
A Cactus Wren poses on its favorite cactus. Commonly known as Teddy Bear Cholla, this cactus is ready to give fleshier visitors a big prickly hug as they brush by, but the wrens love to perch and feed on them.
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Survivor
This Black Bear looks like he has a bit of a blep, but his lip is is scarred, shredded from where another bear’s claw caught it in a fight. He’s still living his best bear life from what I could tell.