Wildlife Sightings (actual animals, not athletes or vehicles) (Rio Rancho, Moriarty: snakes, dogs)

[Alinka]

From the foothills near Lomas, about a block from open space, I have had: a coyote in the front yard, rabbits all around (thankfully not at the same time as the coyote!), roadrunners that sometimes get birds, hawks, crows, and ravens.

[Alinka]

PS The photos of the roadrunners are amazing!

[Mike Horrell]

Cool pics, Rich!

[Poncho_NM]

Thanks,

I need to get my animal pictures organized... Since I went digital, I can't get organized. I take pictures like crazy...


Rich

[Mike Horrell]

Originally Posted by Poncho_NM

Since I went digital, I can't get organized. I take pictures like crazy...
Rich

I shot slightly over 1,000 pics in a day making my first full transit of the Panama Canal
and I regularly take a couple hundred on outings like the Durango train so even
being pretty critical of the results, I can generate a lot of shareable stuff in short order.

I've maxed out my online picture posting account with Picture Trail and I'm going
to have to set up my own website to post more. I really don't want to do that,
but if I want to keep on sharing photos, I'm going to be forced into it.

[yukon]

There's a huge prairie dog commune (herd? litter? village?) at the Montgomery Park 'N Ride. They're really fun to watch. I saw a squirrel yesterday, first one I've seen since I moved here. I take it they're somewhat rare around here? Lots of rabbits around the office. Been seeing lizards/geckos the last couple of weeks too. Not much else, I must live in a dull neighborhood

[Poncho_NM]

This is what I found in my driveway in September 2006, Rio Rancho, NM. Looks like baby snake maybe trying to find it's
mother? While trying to get a better picture it slithered away into some shrubs.







This is a Black Widow preparing a lunch of ants. Wrapping them up with silk!. We have had them around the house
before, but not in the open like this. This web was from the curb to the bumper of my truck which was
unusual, It was a windy day, so everything was shaky, the web was shaking, live ants were crawling
everywhere. There was a large ant colony under the plastic covered by gravel which was the edge of
my front yard. I took this picture on September 11, 2006, Rio Rancho, New Mexico






Humming Bird and if you look closely a Bumble Bee at a Red Yucca plant, taken on October 5, 2008, Rio Rancho, NM





Rich

[ABQConvict]

AWESOME pics! Thanks for the contribution.


ABQConvict

[RamblinRoseRanch]

eieeee... not quite 'Querque but i'm close. All these critters are seen on my jaunts into Moriarty (except for a few on the way to or in Santa Rosa yesterday). Keep in mind we've only been here two weeks:

squirrel- Santa Rosa. Had to stop off the little booger.

antelope- interstate to SR. Greg sees them almost daily

lizards, lizards, lizards of allll sizes in my yard

birds, of course. Doves and ones with bright yellow bellies. Not to mention my *garage swallow* we seem to have. No barn yet, hence the garage moniker.

jack rabbits by the numbers, along with cottontails. We actually *have* a baby that lives in the backyard. Greg swears he's a jack rabbit-I think he's a regular ol' bunny. He'd probably fit in the palm of my hand and has a white smudge between his eyes and his ears. I've tossed out handfuls of veggie clippings and baby carrots not three feet from Junior and he's okay with it, as well as with the cats sitting at the sliding door begging to go um, play, with him.

hawk or falcon, not sure which one- don't know which resides here

amazingly enough, a GOLDEN EAGLE. We were headed to town through the cow pasture and saw this large bird sitting on a fence post. I kept thinking "Wow. He's letting us get close. Hawks in TN would have taken off by now." As we drew abreast of him, we saw that it was indeed a golden eagle. Sitting pretty as you please atop the post, eyeing the road.

Haven't seen 'yotes yet, but they were howling up a storm on Wednesday or Thursday night. I was out of town, but Greg and the kids heard them.

[RamblinRoseRanch]

Greg just got home and said on his way in this morning, a prairie dog stopped in front of him (had one do that in Moriarty the other day- i'd forgotten about that) and he stopped. The dog started to dart off and a hawk swooped down and carried the poor sucker away.