Desert O'Piñon
Chumono
Hide your pic-a-nic baskets!!
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Welcome?!
Looks like he's just going to get a cup of coffee.
Desert O'Piñon
Chumono
Definitely a breakfast blend; he's not awake enough to notice the cameraman, which is irrelevant, because the cameraman never dies. A good reason to keep your phone on your person at all times.
Gabler
Masterpiece
Have you heard of the concept of survivorship bias?
Gabler
Masterpiece
Five-lined skink and pickerel frog:
Desert O'Piñon
Chumono
Not many amphibians in the desert, and the majority of legged reptiles are too fast to catch. But I love the desert box turtles.
I did, however catch a coachwhip yesterday that had just eaten a dove egg. I released it in a small lagoon that still has a bit of water.
Gabler
Masterpiece
When I was ten, I was a master at catching skinks. Now that I'm thirty, I'm mostly too slow. I caught this one because it was trapped in a large water bowl.
When I visited Disney World at age eleven, I was more interested in the anole lizards than the rides. At one point, I had gathered seventeen live anoles in my shirt tail, and I was handing them out to other kids.
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
When I was a kid I used to spend summers on the Texas Gulf coast just across the La line. Anoles were all over the place. My grandmother showed me how to get the lizards to open their mouths. Once you got that you put them up to your earlobe and they’d clamp down tight with bulldog bite. Wanna freak your mom out? Come in the house and say “chameleon earrings”. The lizard would hang on a while then drop off (be outside when that happens
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Desert O'Piñon
Chumono
I did a lot of growing up in North Texas. As a boy, I caught just about everything I could. My grandfather (a farmer starting as a boy and continuing after WWII until his early 89s) taught me the value of wildlife, the land, and keeping our resources viable and healthy. He was a steward of the environment, and he passionately hated environmental policies. He showed me how to gently catch animals by hand for observation and release them unharmed. I became pretty good at it. Armadillos were easy, but that ONE skunk was a real challenge.
Between junior and senior year of HS, I worked on the farm, which was a typical summer. When it was time for wheat harvest, the grain bins were checked before the previous year's corn was hauled to market. A brood of barn owls had hatched starting about a week earlier. He turned me loose to save and raise three of them. By the time we found them, the two youngest were just too weak to save.
I bet their parents were thrilled....
Desert O'Piñon
Chumono
If you've ever seen Old Yeller...
...I was Little Arliss.
...I was Little Arliss.
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