(Winter Visitors -- updated 10 January '09)
Bunkhouse Neighbors
aren't always pretty, and often they try to eat each other.
Mark photographed this aerial flirtation.
The male performed a wheeling, swooping
sky dance which attracted three admirers.
Turkey Buzzard
tired of waiting for something to die.
does a hoppy happy dance on the patio fence.
Coyote are out in the daylight, usually hunting the desert north of our fence.
A shaggy bobcat trots down the wash behind our bunkhouse in the mornings.
Young Javelina, traveling alone, grazes down the hill.
King Snake is harmless to humans,
deadly to the little ground squirrels.
Cardinal is a splash of winter color.
Our regulars generally aren't so flashy.
Round-Tailed Ground Squirrels
from Goldie's spring litter.
at the end of September. In the still chilly January days
the dear little rodents are starting to poke out of burrows.
Squirrelyville babies teenagers |
We and the beasts are kin. Since, then, the animals are creatures with wants and feelings differing in degree only from our own, they surely have their rights. Ernest Thompson Seton
 | Nathyn was here for a few holiday days. He's one of our more attractive winter visitors, and is responsibly opposed to eating animals. Then he's back to Washington for med school.
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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as
a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. Aldo Leopold
What are they dying for?
Be the first one on your block
to have your boy come home in a box.