by Rich Leighton | Aug 8, 2016 | Arizona, Birds, Herps, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Reptiles, Travel
My last trip out to Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, I was adamant about finding the United States’ only venomous lizard – the gila monster. I wasn’t going to leave until I found one and got it on camera. Unfortunately, my luck was terrible and I...
by Rich Leighton | Jul 17, 2016 | Georgia, Herps, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Reptiles
When I was a kid growing up in Bradenton, Florida – the most difficult of all the local lizards was the “blue-tailed” skink. We chased them all over the place for years, sometimes catching one, but usually being put to shame by a small reptile. Years...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 31, 2016 | Florida, Herps, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Reptiles
The sign of any healthy body of water is the presence of turtles. Of the 327 species alive today, 60+ of those are found living in the wild in the United States. The fossil record shows that turtles are at least 157 million years old in what we would recognize today...
by Rich Leighton | Dec 21, 2015 | American Southwest, Herps, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, New Mexico, Photography, Reptiles
The round-tail horned lizard (Phrynosoma modestum) is a member the lizard family Phrynosomatidae, also known as the spiny desert lizards. Horned lizards also happen to be one of the most curious and interesting of the American Southwest desert spiny lizards, which are...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 29, 2015 | Amphibians, Frogs, Herps, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Texas
This is going to be a post of few words and a lot of pictures. This past spring, there was a massive thunderstorm the day I was traveling through New Mexico toward the Big Bend National Park of West Texas. By the time I arrived, the Chihuahuan Desert sun was back out...
by Rich Leighton | Apr 24, 2015 | American Southwest, Herps, Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel
For those who know me, have hiked with me in the outdoors, or had been to my home in the early 2000’s, they will know that I am an acute arachnophile. My love for arachnids developed as a kid growing up in my hometown of Bradenton, Florida where one could find...
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