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| Scaled Quail went to get a drink | 
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| Mourning Dove | 
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| Velvet Ant | 
| first tarantula | 
| a kid on our trip decided to keep her as a pet | 
| young Black Widow | 
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| adult Black Widow with a meal | 
| there's a tiny caterpillar too | 
| Western Pygmy Blue butterfly | 
| old seafloor Methane vent | 
| trying to coax a tarantula out | 
| more vents | 
| blue cap over hole to keep it from going back in for a minute | 
| comparing molts of the two tarantulas | 
| bye! | 
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| pretty Blue Wing grasshopper | 
| clamshell fossil | 
| Loggerhead Shrike | 
| Wigeon | 
| I hope it is just sitting and not nesting in September. | 
| Robber fly with a meal | 
| Baculite fossil - everywhere - I brought some home | 
| Broadleaf Milkweed | 
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| Tamarisk | 
| undisturbed tarantula lair | 
| Prickly Pear fruit | 
| young Canyon Towhee | 
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| taking the back roads home | 







 
 
1 comment:
I am glad I was not on that trip. I simply have never been fond of critters with 8 legs, especially when they are hairy!
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