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Scott Chandler said:
It has been AMAZING looking for and watching the scorpions. They remind me of the bears at Katmai, they'll sit on the road where there is a mating ball of moths going on and simply wait for one to fly into their grasp. I watched the headlamp lit scorpion pictured above eat a moth for five minutes before it caught another one, got self conscious of me watching it, and it went into a hole.

The snakes! I want to find more. Everyone else keeps finding them while I just get sunburnt.
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I have tons of scorpions in my backyard and love to watch them at night between the rocks. Love scorpions, as long as they stay where they are. They usually eat lot of bugs. I loved mama scorpion and her babies

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With snakes I was never lucky. I barely see them and when I was at ORPI last Spring I never saw a single one
 
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More critter photos from my final days at ORPI

More from seeing my first Gila Monster.
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Gopher Snake, I saw four in one morning
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Sonoran Collared Lizard
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Great Horned Owl, sleeping in her nest. SO CUTE
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Crested Caracara
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Coachwhip, greased lightning. I'm lucky it went into the tree.
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Mojave Rattlesnake, our interesting housemate
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Scott Chandler said:
More critter photos from my final days at ORPI

More from seeing my first Gila Monster.
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Gopher Snake, I saw four in one morning
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Sonoran Collared Lizard
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Great Horned Owl, sleeping in her nest. SO CUTE
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Crested Caracara
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Coachwhip, greased lightning. I'm lucky it went into the tree.
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Mojave Rattlesnake, our interesting housemate
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Great Scott! or should it be great, Scott!

Love the Mojave Green and the birds. Well shot. Where's the new job? Can you get an ANWAR gig so we can get animal pics from there?
 
Scott Chandler said:
More critter photos from my final days at ORPI

More from seeing my first Gila Monster.
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Gopher Snake, I saw four in one morning
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Sonoran Collared Lizard
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Great Horned Owl, sleeping in her nest. SO CUTE
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Crested Caracara
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Coachwhip, greased lightning. I'm lucky it went into the tree.
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Mojave Rattlesnake, our interesting housemate
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I hate snakes and the idea of them in trees freak me out, but even with all that, I've got to say the last pic of the snake is a great one.
 
wsp_scott said:
I hate snakes and the idea of them in trees freak me out
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Hahaha I was so happy the coachwhip went into the tree. I first saw it on the road but the second I was out of the car it shot off like lightning into the desert. If it hadn't gone into the tree I'd have never gotten a good look at it.

Artemus said:
Where's the new job?
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Rocky Mountain National Park
 
Scott Chandler said:
Hahaha I was so happy the coachwhip went into the tree. I first saw it on the road but the second I was out of the car it shot off like lightning into the desert. If it hadn't gone into the tree I'd have never gotten a good look at it.

Rocky Mountain National Park
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You got your wish! When? You stopping by on the way past?
 
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