So today I hooked up with my old chum from Naples & couchsurfing, Jo. She is a native of Tucson and was fortunately home this week, having just gotten back from lordy knows how long in France, and going back to college in Virginia next week. She took me to see the absolutely brilliant Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, which hosts a lot of the wildlife you might find in these parts, and some you might pray you'll never encounter.
I'm going to divide the pictures into several posts, on account of having taken a fuckload of 'em. Imma start with birds and small animals.
We started out with the hummingbirds. These little fuckers are fast, I had several photo ops of them hanging still in mid air, but had no chance to fire off a pic.
A bird giving me a WTF-look when I made my bird/dolphin/squirrel/insane Norwegian sounds.
Frogs? Toads? French swimmers? Who cares?
These prairie dogs are just the cutest. They do human stuff with their little paws, and they're very social animals. Easy to take good pics when you have a whole gang and they're as calm as these were.
Stuffing face.
Standing guard. There's fuck all to threaten this group, as they're protected from above by nets, but it doesn't seem like they've quite caught on to it yet.
Awwwww.
A lot of a prairie dog's life is occupied with stuffing face, it seems.
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