Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Desert wildlife





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Photos by the Hubs and I. | More Wordless Wednesday.

12 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing the pics! Lot of interesting animals in the desert :)

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  2. These are great pictures! I love the colors too...

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  3. I'm not really a fan of frogs. Anyway, I love the pictures of the wild life.
    Happy WW!

    Mariposa's WW

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  4. Is that a prairie dog beside the cactus? Nice shots!

    Happy WW to you! I hope that you will come and see my entry, too.

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  5. Love the gopher and the frog. Nice shots.

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  6. Great pictures! I love all the little critters.

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  7. great pics! Different critters than we see here in buffalo. =D

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  8. Lovely shots! I like the last one especially; well camouflaged.

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  9. Regarding the animal in the third photo, the volunteer that gave us a tour of the Desert Botanical Garden (where all these shots were taken), called it a "ground squirrel." I thought ground squirrels were smaller than that, but I didn't think we had prairie dogs in Arizona. So I consulted Wikipedia. After looking up prairie dogs (which, I learned, can live in Sonora, Mexico - so they could be in Phoenix - we're part of the same desert), ground squirrels, and gophers, I'm still not sure! But it seems like "ground squirrel" can be used as a common name for any of those, so I guess we'll just call it that!

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