Bighorn sheep in the edge of the Monte Cristo Range in Nevada
Raccoons in a tree / after a storm in winter / they gather in trees
Mountain Goats up high / near top of Delano Peak / radio collar
A skunk foraging / on a hike down to Jones Hole / skunk please move off trail
A quick pause to let us pass in Zion National Park
A fox looking back at some other hikers in Sidestep Canyon near Wahweap Creek
A Skinks magic touch convention on a cottonwood tree in Death Valley National Park
A bobcat gives us a stink eye in the Cornudas Mountains of Southeastern New Mexico
A bobcat track in the snow on a hike near Lee Flat in Death Valley National Park
A Bald Eagle hanging out on a snag above Lake Sabrina
Bighorn Sheep above the Keane Wonder Mine in Death Valley National Park
A badger hangs out under a Joshua Tree moments after a couple coyotes ran off
Garter Snake gives me an expressive side eye
A squirrel near the lower of the Bishop Creek Treasure Lakes surveys us as a potential source of handouts
A juvenile elk in the Snake Range of eastern Nevada
A Collared lizard carefully studies me in the West Desert of Utah
The mama duck almost flew into us as we hiked past its next
A doe just off of the Mount Whitney trail
Hard working squirrel
A marmot checks us out near Gaylor Lakes in Yosemite National Park
A juvenile Chuckwalla pauses in Joshua Tree National Park
A lizard in the Coso Range gives us the once over twice
A stickbug in the Palen Mountains on a petroglyph panel stays put
A Red Shafted Flicker sits on a tree above Independence Creek just west of the Eastern California Museum
A Scrub Jay found a nut near the Eastern California Museum
Pelicans tending to their business in Montana de Oro State Park
An otter cares for itself just off the deck in Morro Bay
The Otter must have accidentally tickled his whiskers and couldn't control his expression
A seagull on the dock in Morro Bay at sunset
Pelicans circling around flying northbound up the Owens Valley
A Blister beetle gives a Desert Five Spot the once over twice
Bucks in the velvet grazing in Yosemite Valley right next to the trail
Coyote in Death Valley National Park giving the feed me eyes to every car that drives past
A wild burro on the Darwin Plateau is wary of us
Sierra Bighorn Sheep making sure we keep our distance
A buck apparently feeling the rut near Seven Pines
A Ptarmigan stays still in Yosemite National Park
A peeping squirrel checks us out on Table Mountain
These deer were bedded down when we walked past
The Sierra Bighorn Sheep didn't seem to mind as we walked up toward them until we got too close
This Grey Jay was cooperatively posing when Junko walked up and it flew off
A Sooty Grouse struts its stuff along the Golden Trout Creek trail. About six weeks later we saw some little ones in the same area.
Pronghorn antelope near Currant, Nevada in fresh snow
A rattlesnake tastes the air and appears to just have the illusion of a forked tongue
These hawks flew back and forth above this small rim at Hart Mountain Wildlife Refuge and locked talons several times
A dragonfly near the top of Tungsten Peak on a smoky day
This migrating deer walked right up on us as we were having lunch and just pretended we weren't there
Bighorn sheep preparing to cross the road in Zion National Park
A doe studies us as we drive across the Abajo Mountains
Mama and a kid cleverly walked around a rise to get away from us and rejoin the rest of the herd
Charlotte said Dave and I almost stepped on this little Desert Tortoise in the New York Mountains
Could the whole family smile at the same time?
A Pika pauses from his/her busy work day to study us on a hike near Gaylor Lakes
A warm coat for such a hot desert, Death Valley National Park
Bighorn sheep surveys our car from a perch in Valley of Fire State Park
Mountain goats stop to take a look at me whistling while taking pictures
This coyote liked to hang out on some cinders near a borrow pit for at least a few months
Deer curiously checking me out at Logging Flat above Big Pine Creek
A Desert Tortoise in the New York Mountains of the Mojave Desert
The motto and creed of the Pronghorn, when in doubt, run fast
A couple deer browsing in the Sierra foothills
Seals floating on some icebergs in Alaska
A Collared Lizard looks to be in fine form along Mill Creek near Moab
Every place on this earth fits into nature's master plan
A Black Necked Stilt on a shallow flooding mitigation portion of Owens Dry Lake
A chonk marmot carefully studies me
Mountain Goats slowly working away from us on Delano Peak
Both male and female Mountain Goats have beards
Ladybug rendezvous on top of a peak in the late winter
A little Horned lizard just looks to blend in on the Dixie National Forest of southern Utah
Mountain Goat descends from the top of Delano Peak
Monterey Bay Aquarium jellyfish
A bighorn sheep walks past our car near one of the tunnels in Zion National Park
A lizard in the Sierra foothills
A Jerusalem Cricket near Benton
Javelina in Hueco Tanks State Park
Collared lizard along the Forgotten Pass trail in the Inyo Mountains
Ptarmigan near the Mount Roberts trail above Juneau
Monterey Bay Aquarium jellyfish
Fox stopping by our camp spot
A chonk squirrel checks us out from a dead branch near the trail
Drinking Sooty Grouse / hidden next to Mount Whitney trail / nobody can see
Tarantula step / each leg moves individually / near White Mountains crest