Steve Shinn:
Cactus wrens at nest with babies, Anza-Borrego Desert.
Steve Shinn:
Cactus Wren calling at dawn, Anza-Borrego desert. "Chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga"
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Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus running with prey, a Kangaroo rat?
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Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus, portrait, Anza Borrego desert
Steve Shinn:
Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus, portrait, Anza Borrego desert
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Costa's hummingbird and bee. The birds and the bees!
Steve Shinn:
Costa's hummingbird and bee on Chuparosa flowers, Borrego Springs, CA, desert
Steve Shinn:
Rock wren eating a bee "Beereakfast?"
Steve Shinn:
White-tailed Antelope Squirrel eating flowers, Anza Borrego Desert
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Cactus Wren on Cholla cactus, "Ouch, dang thorns!"
Steve Shinn:
Cactus Wrens in Borrego Desert with trash (fabric softener sheet) for nest, "Hey Honey, this will make our nest the sweetest smelling in the desert!" "Take it back, silly boy, and stop shopping in the dump!"
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Long-nosed Leopard Lizard - Gambelia wislizenii, female, shedding skin, Joshua Tree National Park, Cottonwood trails area
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Endangered Mojave desert tortoise with rocks embedded in shell. Not sure how this happened but guesses are that it got rolled by a car on a rocky road. Joshua Tree CA.
Steve Shinn:
Mojave desert tortoise detail of embedded rock.