I'm gonna delete this app. It never caught on for me. I came mostly to stay connected to the friends I'd lost during the great migration, but its just not the same. If I never see you guys on evil twitter again, I will miss you.
Babies in the burrow? As I drove up the seawall, this guy flew down from it to this sandy area and was making alarm calls nonstop. 🪶 📷 #Wildlife #nature
Gull-billed tern panting in the heat. Seriously a wuss, it wasn’t that hot out. She was calling, the male came in briefly and then flew off.
Baby granite spiny lizard
Adult granite spiny lizard
Also, the colors and patterns, even in the babies, are easily distinguishable.
Here is a crappy video of what is likely a male lesser nighthawk singing and flashing his tail. Amazing! #birds
Loggerhead shrike on ocotillo
Loggerhead shrike on ocotillo. 🌿🪶
Happy Mommy Day. My daughter called and is taking me to brunch ❤️ And happy Mother’s day to all these soon to be cliff swallow hollow moms. They sure built the nests up quick. This is the west side of the bridge. I’ll need to go back in the evening next Sat for better light. 🪶 📷 #Wildlife #nature
Male red-winged blackbird chasing a young male northern harrier who is carrying the remains of a bird in his talon.
No love lost between this northern harrier and the red-winged blackbirds. I can't imagine why! 🪶
The look on her face says it's very tasty and must get it down the hole to babies.
A side view of a Horny Toad sitting on a rock. From Wikipedia: The generic name Phrynosoma means "toad-bodied". In common with true toads (amphibians of the family Bufonidae), horned lizards tend to move sluggishly, often remain motionless, and rely on their remarkable camouflage to avoid detection by predators. They are adapted to arid or semiarid areas. The spines on the lizard's back and sides are modified reptile scales, which prevent water loss through the skin, whereas the horns on the head are true horns (i.e., they have a bony core)
Great Basin Kaijü
Brown lizard with spots on the back, perched on a rock face.
Lizard at the Dripping Springs Natural Area near Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. I think this is Cophosaurus texanus scitulus, but I could be wrong. 📸🦎
Selling our glorious federal PUBLIC lands, is a crime to our national heritage.
It’s legislative subterfuge to benefit the ultrarich at the cost of wilderness. These wildlands provides so much more if left to the public and the living earth.
Mormon Tea flowers.
Foot-long southern alligator lizard, Ragle Ranch Park, Sebastopol, Cal., May ‘25. Required a closer look to find the streamlined, tucked-in forelegs. Thought we had a stumpy snake for a minute..
Foot-long southern alligator lizard, Ragle Ranch Park, Sebastopol, Cal., May ‘25. Required a closer look to find the streamlined, tucked-in forelegs. Thought we had a stumpy snake for a minute..
Rescue four chickens? Face prison. Wreck entire ecosystems and kill millions of animals? Get subsidies and a seat at the table. That’s where we are.
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Gravid mama all bright green, black, and blue! “Females aren’t flashy” is bs. !
Dorsal shot of a bright green gravid wallie in San Pedro CA
Italian wall lizard fashion sense 💚
This is a delicate pink and white flower
Desert willow flower
A desert cottontail in the sun translucent ears.
A desert cottontail lounging in the shade with some sunlight coming through.
A desert cottontail lounging in the shade with some sunlight coming through yesterday afternoon (Photos: Sicco Rood).
Coast Cholla cactus here starting to bloom. Both photos.
Coast cholla cactus starting to bloom here. The color is intense and gorgeous . 🌿
Raven croaking from a palm
Raven “croaking” from a palm. Hail the genius bird. 🪶
cover of desert thrasher conservation strategy
One of our proudest achievements at the Desert Thrasher Working Group is the Conservation Strategy for Desert Thrashers. That document and more can be downloaded at the DTWG website.
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#conservation #partnersinflight #desertthrashers #birds
A group of cliff swallows working on their mud nests under a concrete irrigation gate. Some are in their half-completed nests, some flying.
The cliff swallows are very busy working on their nests this morning. 🪶
Le Conte's Thrasher perched in shrub.
The LeConte’s Thrasher is a pale bird of very arid deserts, sticking close to the ground and feeding on small animals such as lizards and larger insects
coyotes
