backyard critter watch

Treasures come in many shapes and sizes, and this one, the shed skin of a backyard lizard, is quite a prize indeed! We found it tucked away...

We were walking to a nearby open space when we came across this garter snake, perhaps a coast garter snake ( Thamnophis atratus zaxanthus ) ...

Summertime and the berries are ripening on thorny brambles around the Bay Area! Blackberries are wild and seemingly unstoppable, their vi...

Backyard Critter Watch is back after a too-long hiatus during which jobs, home, family and life took over and kept us away! But back in time...

We placed our trail camera by a creek in an open space park near our house, and we were surprised when the results showed a pair of feral ca...

Going through the fridge last week we found a Tupperware container with the remnants of three-week-old arroz con pollo . There was one piece...

After hiking around Haleakala (the tallest dormant volcano in the world, on Maui during our vacation last week, we stopped at a Mexican rest...