WILDFLOWERS AND CRITTERS

THIS YEARS CROP OF QUARTERHORSE FOALS AT A WATERING HOLE NEXT TO OUR CAMPSITE.DOUBLE 66 RANCH PANHANDLE.

WATERSNAKE IN LAKE AT DON AND JUDY'S TRINITY TEXAS.

THE DIVERSITY IN THE CHAPPARAL AND HILL COUNTRY OF SONGBIRDS HAS BEEN AMAZING. BIRDS WITH GREAT NAMES SUCH AS TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE THAT HAD A SONG SO COMPLEX IT WENT FOR 7 MINUTES BEFORE REPEATING THE SEQUENCE-HARD TO GET CLOSE TO THOUGH.SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER,RES-WINGED BLACKBIRD AND BLACK-BELLIEDWHISTLING DUCK-SUCH DESCRIPTIVE NAMES.

I SPENT ALOG TIME ENTHRALLED AS THIS WASP FED THE WAXX TO THE LARVAE IN THE CAPSULES AND THEY THEN SEALED THEMSELVES IN.

WILDFLOWER DIVERSITY AND AN ARRAY OF BEE,BUTTERFLY,WASP AND BEETLE POLLINATORS.

COLLARED LIZARD IN ALIBATES FLINT QUARRY.

YOU LITTLE HORNY TOAD!! (A LIZARD ACTUALLY)

LIZAED WHOSE CLAIM TO FAME IS ON DUSK TO COME OUT AND DO PUSH-UPS AND HEAD NODS WHILST LOOKING FOR OTHERS OF HIS SPECIES. ONCE A MALE IS SPOTTED HE TEARS OFF TO FRIGHTEN AWAY.WHEN A FEMALE IS SPOTTED HE TEARS OFF AND IS ABSENT FOR SOME TIME!!

FOUND THIS PINIC SHELTER COVERED IN SWALLOW NESTS AND DOZENS OF PARENTS BUSY FEEDING THE HUNGRY KIDS!!

HIGH PLAINS ARE COVERED IN THIS YUCCA ALSO KNOWN AS COW CANDY!!THEY LOVE THE FLOWERS.OTHER NAMES INCLUDE SOAPWEED WHICH IS JUST ONE OF MANY USES THE INDIGENOUS HAVE FOR IT

SCISSOR TAILED FLYCATCHER.