Back from another bio trip!
This time, in the Mojave National Preserve! And more random notes:- Birds and lizards don't like me. I didn't catch animals of either kind this entire weekend. Bah.
- I like endangered desert tortoises though. I found one (when I was looking for lizards in the Kelso Dunes) and he hung out in my shadow for a bit. They're SO CUTE! And LITTLE! Eeeee.....
- The only thing we caught in the bird mist-nets all weekend was a big ass beetle. Figures.
- A woodrat attacked my shoe when I was outside taking star pictures at night. I felt something land on my foot and looked down, thinking I had dropped something. A large rodent with a tail jumped off my foot, backed away slightly, then ran off into the bushes. Yay for close encounters!
- Speaking of close encounters, Annie found a rattlesnake the same time I found my tortoise. She heard rustling in the bushes, and thinking it was a lizard, poked around until she heard a rattle. Oops, LOL. Luckily it was one of the nonaggressive ones, cause we poked around it some more trying to get it to come out. Yeah, biologists can be idiots sometimes, I guess..
- We gave Dr. K a scare when we radioed her about a "specimen" we found in the dunes, and asked her what to feed it. Once she came back, we presented her with a squeaky toy lizard we found in the middle of the wash, LOL!
- Sunrises are pretty. :)
- Quails are hilariously funny. A pair jumped into the road right in front of our SUV and proceeded to run away from the car...while ON the road. LOL!
- Horny toad lizards poop really really big poops. I swear, it was larger than a guinea pig poop, and it's only like...a quarter of the size!
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