by Rich Leighton | Jun 15, 2022 | Lizards, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Reptiles, Texas
Sometimes you are just walking along admiring the wildflowers like I was on this day in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, when from inside a a thicket of shrimp plants, I saw this green anole watching me carefully. I just love the turquoise color around its eye!...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 16, 2022 | NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Reptiles, Texas, Turtles and Tortoises
Very recently I was looking for the somewhat rare and mostly unheard of American alligators found in South Texas just north of the Mexican border in Hidalgo County when I suddenly surprised this spiny softshell turtle that I didn’t even see until I was about 4...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 1, 2022 | Dragonflies, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Pacific Northwest, Washington
Perhaps the most strikingly beautiful of all of the large dragonflies of Western Canada and the United States, the eight-spotted skimmer (Libellula forensis) contrasts greatly with its environment, whether it is in lowland marshes and ponds or along desert creeks and...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 22, 2021 | Herps, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Reptiles, Texas
Back in the swing of things posting new images! One of the coolest finds during our first couple of outings into the Rio Grande Valley was finding this Texas tortoise (Gopherus berlandieri). Very similar to the gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) that I often found...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 19, 2021 | Herps, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Reptiles, Snakes, Texas
I’m back from a bit of a hiatus! We moved from the Seattle, Washington area to the Southern tip of Texas in the Rio Grande Valley last month, and it’s been a mad scramble to get up and running again! In order to get back in the groove of posting new...
by Rich Leighton | Dec 7, 2017 | American Southwest, Arizona, Birds, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography
This male black-tailed gnatcatcher and his mate weren’t very happy when I peered out of my tent in the bright Sonoran Desert morning in the Ajo Mountains of Southern Arizona’s Pima County. I was scolded almost the entire time as I packed up my camera...
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