Tag: Phrynosoma hernandesi

Crypsis.

Greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi), hanging out and blending in, at Elden Pueblo, in Flagstaff, Arizona.

I don’t intend for this to be a herp blog, but jeez, Arizona, you’ve sure got a lot of lizards. All of them cry out (so to speak) to be photographed.

I’m somewhat disappointed I haven’t seen any snakes so far, except for the one that flew over my car while I was driving on a back-country road in Yavapai County a few weeks ago, and that snake wasn’t flying so much as it was being carried uncomfortably in the grip of a common black-hawk’s talons, and it didn’t seem to be enjoying the flight at all, based on all of its wriggling and writhing. It was, if possible, having a flight even worse than the last time I flew Continental. I wriggled and writhed on that flight too.

Crypsis.

Greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi), hanging out and blending in, at Elden Pueblo, in Flagstaff, Arizona.

I don’t intend for this to be a herp blog, but jeez, Arizona, you’ve sure got a lot of lizards. All of them cry out (so to speak) to be photographed.

I’m somewhat disappointed I haven’t seen any snakes so far, except for the one that flew over my car while I was driving on a back-country road in Yavapai County a few weeks ago, and that snake wasn’t flying so much as it was being carried uncomfortably in the grip of a common black-hawk’s talons, and it didn’t seem to be enjoying the flight at all, based on all of its wriggling and writhing. It was, if possible, having a flight even worse than the last time I flew Continental. I wriggled and writhed on that flight too.