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| no partners | | Spring Brake at Joshua Tree, again. I might make this an annual thing. My ankle isn't 100%, so I stuck to the sandy flats. I re-visited some familiar spots, and predictably, saw the usual: sidewinders ( ), desert tortoise, scorpions, sun spiders, etc, except I saw a lot more of it this trip. Not a lot of blooms in the park yet, and surprising, not a lot of lizards either, but the snakes were out.
Most everything I encountered was venomous. I saw so many scorpions that I lost count and stopped photographing them. I realized on this trip that I need to work on my scorpion-handling skills. I read that to pick up a scorpion, you can approach it from the back end because scorpions cannot sting backwards. I discovered that this is not true.
Fauna seen:
- 9 sidewinder (tho one sidewinder could have been a repeat- not sure)
- Scorpions of all shapes and sizes
- Sun spider
- Black Widows
- a desert tortoise
- a leopard lizard
- a desert iguana (unable to catch and photograph)
- a whiptail (caught but did not feel like photographing)
- a banded gecko (too squirmy to photograph)
- a few zebra-tails
- a roadrunner
- side-botched lizards |
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