Photo from Museo de la Ballena, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México. This photo is use for enviromental education.
esta observación no es mia ,es de un amigo que me autorizo a subirla a esta pagina
Location is at top of hill, about 250 masl, by radio tower.
Observed a coast night snake (Hypsigiena ochrorhynchus) consuming a side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana) on the Grotto trail within the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area on April 13. I first noticed the side-blotched lizard at 3:45 pm with its head in a burrow on the side of the trail, but when I tried to pick it up it became apparent something was holding on to its head. I stayed and watched as the night snake slowly emerged form the burrow to consume its prey over the course of 45 minutes. Once finished the night snake slithered off the trail into some low shrub cover. It was no more than 12 inches long.
With an alligator lizard. Or maybe it’s the other way around!
Monserrate Whiptail
Güico (español)
according to L. Lee Grismer Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California
Found this lil one which I have never seen a color morph like this for a Mud snake. I determined it to be one based off the visual/physical features such as the “tail spine”, pattern, head/eye shape, as well as a divided anal plate.
I found this guy under a branch in my backyard, and picked him up. As soon as I did, he started barfing up a California Slender Salamander... STILL ALIVE!!!!
Plants at this location are much larger than the Ione location. Growing with Arctostaphylos mewukka, manzanita, viscida,
Endemic to Guadalupe Island. ID by Sula Vanderplank (Botanical Research Institute of Texas). Observed on north end of island. Location on map is approximate.
Foraging on a Harakeke
Lovely little fish. Not shy at all! Came swimming right up when I touched the surface of the water, and swam right into the basket. Larger fish in the deeper water were not so naive.
mated pair with one colt, Catching snakes and eating them. Caught and ate 8 snakes in under two hours.
Being Eaten by a GREG
Crotalus atrox x Crotalus molossus, wild hybrid
Leptodeira (aff. ornata 2) predating on bolitoglossa lignicolor
Publication-
https://doi.org/10.17161/randa.v29i1.17924
©GECI / Norma Castillo
About 17 feet long, observed feeding at the surface for appx 20 minutes. Photo credit: Eric Austin Yee aboard Blue Ocean Whale Watch.
Presumed roadkilled and this turtle was found munching on it.
This is the 15 foot, 1700 lb female Great White that was trapped in the West Gutter of Naushon in 2004. The shark was stranded in the creek for more than two weeks and was a national story.
Cascade salamander
Erythranthe naiandina (J.M.Watson & C.Bohlen) G.L.Nesom Phytoneuron 2012-39: 45 (2012) syn. Mimulus naiandinus J.M.Watson & C.Bohlen Bot. Mag. n.s., 17: 199 2000. [Accepted name (Phrymaceae): native range is Chile (Maule). http://powo.science.kew.org]. Flower 41H x 39W mm.
preygoneesh- distinct white patches at front of wings, extending primaries, number tags visible (2-4 birds total)
I saw these two condors mating. Looking up their wing tags, they're Beak Boy and Solo, a mated pair:
130 year old treated planted by a miner from Virginia per the owner of the house. It's roots are probably in the Klamath River's water table
I’m curious if this is a steller’s jay, blue jay, or some sort of hybrid?
Juvenil, en barranca selva baja caducifolia
Caught and banded by PRBO Conservation Science staff. Aged as an after hatch-year based on skull, bill color and plumage.
In the spring of 2003 at Valley View site in Yosemite Valley my wife saw a female Harlequin Duck. None had been seen in the valley for apparently 80 years. The following March we saw a pair from Pohono bridge. Later, park naturalists found the female was raising some young. We found her each spring through 2006 but no nesting was noted. We have not seen a Harlequin there since.
Banded, code 1215-xxx14
Lizards fighting in a cloud forest.
Encountered in rafters of a rear porch annex to a circa 1915 wood frame/split log exterior house on private property. Based on location, I believe this is the San Diego subspecies (Lampropeltis zonata pulchra) based on Cal Herps website and my San Diego Field Guide (UC Press). A second, smaller individual was reported a week earlier in another structure on this property.
Gopher Snake eating a bat (not sure on ID for bat) on Santa Cruz Island (TNC side) west of main ranch.